Nicholas of lyra’s commentaries on the gospels of matthew and luke

This volume provides translations of significant passages in the fourteenth-century Franciscan Nicholas of Lyra's commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, addressing such important topics as Franciscan poverty, politics, and eschatalogy. A substantial introduction and explanatory notes ar...

Instant insights: rewilding in agriculture

This book provides a comprehensive overview of rewilding in agriculture, focussing on the diversity of best practices used to rewild grasslands and rangelands, as well as the benefits and trade-offs related to animal rewilding.

Instant insights: regenerative techniques to enhance biodiversity

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of regenerative techniques used to enhance biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, focussing on field margins, hedgerows, alley cropping and multispecies swards.

Instant insights: silvopastoral systems

This book provides a detailed overview of the range of silvopastoral systems, including hedgerows and riparian buffers, as well as their role in the delivery of key ecosystem services, such as improvements to soil health, water and air quality and biodiversity.

Disappearance

Disappearance has become a defining problem of our times – the disappearance of humans, communities, cultures and life-sustaining systems. This book provides a much-need critique, which offers new thinking and aesthetic responses to understanding the deep political, cultural and philosophical sta...

Whose sovereignty?

In this carefully argued case for a federal Europe, Céline Spector proposes that national sovereignty has become increasingly untenable as mechanisms perpetuating fiscal, social and environmental inequities transcend borders. Indeed, in the face of Russian aggression and America’s apparent retrea...

Artificial violence

Drawing on ideas from across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, James Tyner considers how the advent of the Anthropocene and and the coming age of artificial intelligence challenges us to rethink our notions of violence. Humanity’s destruction of the Earth system, which has com...

Constructing female terrorism

A critical examination of UK and French media’s representation of politically violent women, which shines fresh light on the construction of national gender identities.

The new politics of nationalism in contemporary europe

This book brings together experts to analyse nine countries that contribute specific aspects to the study of nationalism in Europe.

Working for each other

Deryn Thomas challenges the anti-work narrative by showing work not to be an individual need, but a collective one, a social activity that we do together with others, in response to their needs. Recognising this role is key to reimagining the promise of work as part of a good life.

Debt trap nation

This blistering expose takes the reader inside England's national scandal of homelessness to reveal how government choices have forced single mothers and their families into impossible hardship with hundreds of thousands of children living in temporary accommodation for months, years and sometime...

Stupid rules

Our lives are imbued with rules and regulations, some of which are vital and sensible, but others are simply stupid. Natasha Hamilton-Hart maintains that time-wasting processes of compliance don’t improve anyone’s lives or wellbeing and burden companies and organizations with productivity-sapping...

Crime, space and place

This critical introduction to the geographies of crime highlights the specific value that a geographical perspective adds to the study of crime. Examining crime through the lenses of space and place is shown to enhance our understanding of the nature of crime and how best to police it. The book c...

Coronations and defenestrations

How do Tory leadership elections work? Lee Evans takes a lively look at how the Conservatives appoint (and depose) their leader, from the early history of the party to the present day.

The hobbled state

Germany’s moral and political dilemma, as a nation unwilling to assume a leadership role in the international community, for fear of becoming dominant, is well rehearsed. Mark Vail traces Germany’s reluctant embrace of power from its state formation in the nineteenth century to its current recons...

Downing street downfalls

Before Johnson’s rollercoaster ride, and the ensuing “blink and you missed it” premiership of Truss, the high wastage-rate among Britain’s prime ministers was becoming a cause for concern. This book examines 30 years of prime ministerial misadventures to answer why 10 Downing Street has become a ...

Turkey and the liberal international order

This book examines Turkey’s increasingly unstable position in the liberal international order and its complicated relationship with the West. 

Postcolonial urban studies

Drawing on ideas from postcolonial theory and literary and cultural studies, in particular the work of Martinican poet and thinker Édouard Glissant, Garth Myers develops a new framework for re-imagining global urban studies.

Capitalism's handmaidens

A powerful mythology has grown up around the idea of women’s entrepreneurship. Langworthy offers a political economy of women’s enterprise and asks what value women’s enterprise gives, not to women, but to the institutions that have shaped them and placed them in the centre of the global imaginary.

The new age of genocide

With recent events in Gaza, Martin Shaw seeks to restore the idea of genocide to its central place in thinking about mass atrocities, to apply it to neglected cases, and ultimately to settle the question of ‘What is genocide’?

Farming and land use change to achieve net zero

This book explores key issues in land use change to achieve net zero, including developing national land use strategies affecting agriculture as well as ways to implement particular changes such as rewetting farmland to restore peatland, reforestation and growing bioenergy crops.

Improving the processing quality of wheat

This book reviews the wealth of research on how key components of wheat grains can affect the subsequent processing and sensory quality of the harvested product. The book also discusses recent advances in measuring wheat quality characteristics and how grain quality can be optimised for a range o...

Advances in precision pig farming technologies

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in precision pig farming, focussing on the application of monitoring technologies and data processing techniques to better manage pig housing, nutrition, health and welfare.

Enforcement of investment treaty arbitration awards, third edition

Spearheaded by leading arbitration practitioner, Julien Fouret, this third edition brings together 70 experts to provide up-to-date substantive analysis of recurring issues at the award enforcement stage plus practical perspectives on enforcing awards based on investment treaties.

Going to the people

This book explores the development and popularity of illustrated rotocalco magazines in Italy in the 1930s and early 1940s. Analysing three representative magazines, Di Franco investigates the complex dynamics of cultural exchange defining Italian print culture under Fascism, and examines how the...

Eighteenth-century dermatological handbook

The book contains the English translation of a pivotal 18th-century Latin treatise on skin diseases by the Austrian surgeon Joseph Jacob Plenck (1738–1807) titled Doctrina de Morbis Cutaneis (Instruction on Cutaneous Diseases). The work is significant because in it Plenck demonstrated the value o...

Laura investigations in classic hollywood

Laura Investigations in Classic Hollywood provides a detailed investigation of Laura, the beloved, award-winning and fondly remembered 1944 classic Hollywood detective drama. This book argues that we can shed new light on this fascinating film by thinking like filmmakers ourselves, exploring the ...

Ethnographic reflections on marriage in dhofar, oman

Studying Marriage in Dhofar, Oman explains the choices middle-class, Muslim, tribal Dhofari men and women make when creating a life together.

Sub-saharan african immigrants’ stories of resilience and courage

The purpose of this book to give a voice to nameless and countless stories that represent the personal lived experiences of Sub-Saharan African immigrants in the US. The authors believe that telling our own stories from our own perspectives is important and empowering because when others tell our...

Climate-neutral water management

This book explores sustainable water management as a key solution to water scarcity and climate change, combining scientific innovations, practical strategies, and case studies to support equitable access to safe water and a climate-neutral future.

Travels and revelations

Travels and Revelations: 23 Essays by Zhang Chengzhi is about cultures which the author knows intimately. With sophisticated sensibility, he describes the tangible cultures of Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang in recent decades – the landscapes and cityscapes, the roads and wat...

Crime and pangolins

Taking place

This book presents examination of queer and feminist alternative art spaces in Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It explores how queer and feminist artists have responded to the institutions and histories they have inherited.

The queen, or the excellency of her sex

A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford which was accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his works and so has not received much attention. A full introduction explores what made the play interesting to audiences both when it was first written in t...

Citizens gone

The book examines how countries at the periphery of Europe deal with the challenge of large-scale emigration. They adapt politically and socially and thus re-define the relations between citizens and state. Emigration is a key variable to understand contemporary societal and political change in E...

'the industrialized designer'

This book contributes new perspectives on the identity of the industrial designer, particularly from a gendered perspective, through a critical interrogation of the 'heroic male designer'. It explores the professionalisation of industrial design in Britain and the US from 1930–80, a 'new professi...

The melody and rhythm of speech

An indispensable book presenting for the first time in English an unparalleled overview of the phonetics and phonology of speech melody and rhythm by one of the foremost prosody experts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Readers and mistresses

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2025Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Elizabeth Gask...

Zadie smith

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith’s oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith’s works from different angles and contains chapters on her novels, short stories, her play, and essay collections.

The mediated arctic

This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production – from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigenous Arctic homelands have entered global media ...

The neoliberal monarch

In this well-researched and thought-provoking book on the world’s longest reigning monarch today, Sweden’s Carl XVI Gustaf, sociologist Mikael Holmqvist examines how monarchies and royals exercise corporate power, and how they contribute to consecrating and legitimizing neoliberalism.

Little wars of empire

Little Wars of Empire is first history of British multi-war veterans – the soldiers, nurses, and military families who experienced both colonial wars in the British empire and the First World War. Using their personal archives, it works to understand how at the turn of the twentieth century, colo...

Border abolitionism

This book mobilises an abolitionist approach to contemporary borders, combining critical migration scholarship and carceral abolitionism literature. It argues that a critique of borders involves rethinking the right to mobility as part of processes of commoning.

Border enclaves

An ethnographic study of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, revealing how borders, sovereignty and belonging are negotiated through everyday life, illicit economies and symbolic performances at Europe’s margins.

Ageing and new intimacies

This book examines the romantic and intimate lives of the baby boom generation, often portrayed as pioneers of new ways of relating and family-making. As this cohort enters mid and later life, it is frequently claimed they are redefining ageing itself. Drawing on sensory ethnography in salsa clas...

Rethinking untouchability

This book explores the political thought of B.R. Ambedkar, one of the most important thinkers of modern India. Ambedkar’s ideas transformed untouchability, often considered a millenary religious issue, into a political problem by linking it to larger ideas in the twentieth century such as liberty...

Confessions of monuments

This book examines the role of artefacts and design practice in representing and commemorating a new political community of Turks within the cultural transformation from empire to nation-state between 1908-50s. It offers an expanded understanding of nation-building within global, public as well a...

False profits of ethical capital

This book is a timely study of an important political economic phenomenon: ESG investing and stakeholder capitalism. This book encourages new ways of thinking about corporate responsibility and how to contest it.

Visions for europe

This book offers a fresh look at some of the most challenging dilemmas of European integration and proposes innovative solutions to them by building on perspectives and insights from twelve classical authors in the history of political thought.

Instruments of international order

This book explores the transformation of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century as internationalist schemes for doing world politics came to be practices and principles shared by diplomatic actors across the globe – instruments of international order.

Gendered urban violence among brazilians

This book aims to examine the nature of and resistance to gendered urban violence among Brazilian women in London and in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on the conceptualisation of translocational gendered urban violence framework, it highlights the importance of examining direct for...

Cinematic ethnography

Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to filmmaking at the intersection of art, anthropology and cinema. Rejecting the straightforward representational modes typical of visual anthropology and film studies, the book advances a model grounded in collective aesthetics and col...

Modernity and philosophy in max horkheimer

This book shows that Max Horkheimer’s program of critical theory and his research are rooted in the cogency of philosophical questions and an in-depth knowledge of the historical development of philosophical problems in their close correlation with the socio-economic framework which shaped the ‘b...

Bartered bridegrooms

This book explores the experiences of Muslim men born and raised in Pakistan and Kashmir who migrate after marrying British Pakistani nationals. The book particular focuses on the impact of migration and marriage on their masculinity.

Dick of devonshire

The first ever critical edition of Thomas Heywood’s 1626 play, Dick of Devonshire, presented for the first time with an anthology of its source material.

The racial politics of police warfare

The racial politics of police warfare shatters prevailing myths about British police as an impartial public service. Taking contemporary anti-gang and counter-terrorism policies and practices as its point of departure, the book examines how modern policing is ultimately fashioned by a complex rel...

Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge

Developing the concept of disobedient knowledge, this book provides new perspectives on activism and everyday struggles against racism and borders. Drawing on empirical research in distinct European contexts, the chapters highlight the intertwined nature of racism and bordering, and the role of ...

The first referendum

In 1975 the UK voted 'yes', by 67%, to the European Community (EC). Since 1 January 1973, when the UK first joined, Edward Heath and Harold Wilson sought a fundamental transformation of the UK's relationship with the EC in terms of membership and public opinion. Despite the majority in favour of ...

Empire religiosity

WINNER of the Triennial Distinguished Book Award, 2022-25, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Notre Dame University, South Bend, USAThis book explores Roman Catholic female missionaries and their placement in colonial and postcolonial India. It offers fascinating insights into t...

The elementary structuring of patriarchy

Through life histories of Indigenous women, the volume bridges classical anthropological studies on kinship and contemporary research on the gender inequalities in transnational and transborder migrant families. This ethnographically-informed exercise establishes a critical feminist contribution ...

‘survival capitalism’ and the big bang

Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyd’s of London. It offers timely new perspectives on the City of London’s Big Bang reforms as the Con...

Borderline bodies in art and visual culture

Borderline Bodies offers original interpretations of visual representations of the human body as both bounded and porous, fortified and vulnerable, mobile and constrained—subject to borders yet capable of crossing and challenging them. It also examines images and objects that are themselves “bord...

Arctic state identity

This book explores what it means for state personnel from Norway, Iceland, and Canada that their country holds a formal title as an ‘Arctic state’. It asks what an Arctic state identity might look like through geographies, pasts, futures, and geopolitical relations across different scales, from t...

The legacy of john polidori

This collection explores the genesis of John Polidori’s foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy from the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, through further Gothic fictions and horror films, t...

Romanticizing masculinity in baathist syria

This book documents the influence of European Romantic nationalism in shaping the vision and practices of the Baathist regime in Syria, with particular attention to the impact of new concepts of gender in public life, the role of these constructs in perpetuating conflict and inequality, and curre...

A neoliberal revolution?

A neoliberal revolution? examines the Thatcher government’s attempt to privatise and individualise Britain’s pension system, thereby transforming workers into risk-taking savers with a stake in capitalism. The book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolu...

The sound of difference

The sound of difference examines how diversity work takes shape in a cultural sector deeply implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism.

The official record

The construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. This volume interrogates the boundaries between national security, accountability, oversight, and the Official Record in the context of democratic states.

Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism

Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism is an important intervention into social reproduction theory and eco-socialist debates. It provides a timely analysis of the role of expropriation in the current global water crisis and makes a persuasive argument for understanding class as a...

Massacres in early modern drama

Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about senseless violence, illuminates archaic forms of ...

Rebel populism

Rebel populism is an ethnography of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon during the Syrian uprising and civil war. It documents the rise and fall of the revolution from the perspective of ordinary men. It explores the role of economic transformation, new technology, and masculinity in the developmen...

Heritage and healing in syria and iraq

This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research into trauma and trauma recovery, it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to use heritage for he...

The political ecology of colonial capitalism

The political ecology of colonial capitalism reveals how the co-production of race and nature is a fundamental dynamic of the capitalist world-system.

Women’s agency and the gothic in spain and the americas

This volume offers a unique transnational and transhistorical exploration of the relationship between women and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas. By examining how women writers have reimagined Gothic conventions, the book delves into the intersection of gender, culture, and fear. It highlight...

Living with lodgers

For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else’s home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have received little scholarly attention. Drawing on hundreds of coroners’ inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses many do...

Letter writing in the northumbrian kingdom, 625–786

Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom offers a pioneering exploration of Northumbria’s epistolary culture, demonstrating how letters functioned as a medium for intellectual exchange, political diplomacy, and religious expression, while also illuminating the broader cultural networks and lite...

Everyday foreign policy

This book offers a framework for analysing grass roots politics in Russia. It challenges the assumption that international relations only happen on the high level and instead focuses on the way general population enacts and re-interprets significant foreign policy concepts such as sanctions, wars...

Hariulf’s history of st riquier

A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England.

Home front heroism

Home front heroism explores how civilians were framed as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how the effects and demands of conflict created increased opportunities for heroics, and created a need for heroism to be acknowledged, awarded and celebrated.

The promise of violence

The promise of violence inspires revolutionaries in Iran to see themselves as the hegemony and inflict violence against their compatriots when the Islamic Republic calls for it. The book is a political anthropology of the Islamic Republic of Iran utilising the ‘collective’ memory of Iran-Iraq War...

The persian gulf triangle

This book explores the relations between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States through a Neoclassical Realist framework and shows how their dynamic has affected the Persian Gulf regional system and its international relations from the 1970s until today.

Cinematic nightscapes

Cinematic nightscapes explores how night in contemporary Cuba becomes a powerful space for political expression, imagination and artistic experimentation. Through Cuban documentary film, it examines how the night reshapes ethnographic practices and invites new ways of seeing, listening, feeling a...

The politics of middle english parables

This study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late-medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christ...

Gestures

This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards.

From iceland to the americas

This volume looks at how Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural...

Contemporary chaucer across the centuries

This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in medieval literary and medievalism studies, provi...

Mexican muralist, international marxist

This book interprets the later murals of the Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros in light of his Marxist internationalism.