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The women's liberation movement in scotland
The first book-length account of the women's liberation movement (WLM) in Scotland
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Soccer and racism
This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic.
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Sport and the making of britain
The British love of sport is legendary. In this lively and stimulating book Derek Birley looks at the part it played in shaping British society.The book traces the development of sporting conventions from medieval chivalry to modern notions of sportsmanship and fair play. Particular sports from...
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Tomboys and bachelor girls
Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and Bachelor Girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain for the scholarly and general reader.
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The cinema of oliver stone
An insightful study of the master filmmaker's work, enriched by unprecedented access to the director himself.
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Deporting black britons
In the last two decades, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica. Deporting Black Britons traces the life stories of four men who have been exiled through deportation, exploring how they survive once they are returned to Jamaica, and what their memories of poverty, racist policing and ...
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The great favourite
This is the first biography of the last major unknown figure in European history. The Duke of Lerma was the first and greatest of the royal favourites of the European seventeenth century. He was the greatest art patron of his generation and the greatest lay builder in Spanish history. This study ...
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Golden mummies of egypt
This book is the first major publication based entirely on Manchester Museum’s Egyptology collections. It explores the Graeco-Roman Period (c. 300 BCE–200 CE) of Egyptian history, asking to what extent our modern image of Egypt as a land of gold, sex, art and death is representative of ancient co...
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International mathematical olympiad volume 3
A fantastic compilation of mathematical puzzles, this fully updated three-volume series will challenge and engage serious mathematicians and enthusiasts alike.
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Gothic television
This book is the first in-depth study of the Gothic on television. It defines and explores key instances of the genre across the history of television drama in the UK and US. The book builds a strong argument for the fact that the Gothic, in its various guises, is well-suited to television as a d...
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How blair killed the co-ops
A detailed examination of social enterprise development under New Labour, which, though rarely reported elsewhere, represented a major and deliberate political rupture with the wider Cooperative Movement, of the same order of political magnitude as Blair’s earlier repudiation of Clause Four of it...
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My voice: gerda rothberg
Gerda's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Gerda Rothberg's father was taken away after Kristallnacht and her family arranged for Gerda and her sisters to escape to the UK on the...
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Contemporary black urban music
The examination of CBUM/Hip-Hop as a global-force factors highly in this course. A wide range of topics will be presented to the student in preparation for written essays, philosophical flexibility and assessment.
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Scotland
An academic analysis of the foundations and structures of modern-day Scotland that provides insight into Scottish politics, society and culture.
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The catholicism of literature in the age of the book of common prayer
This book demonstrates the continuity of Roman Catholicism in English Literature in a Biblicist age which established the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer. Key figures covered include William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Queen Henrietta Maria, John Donne, Margaret...
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Recycling the disabled
Examines the “medical organisation” of Imperial Germany for total war
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Sport and diplomacy
The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society.
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Players' work time
This critical account of the Musicians' Union from 1893-2013 explores the organisation's development as a set of responses to technological, industrial and socio-political changes.
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The roman actor
Edition of Philip Massinger's most renowned play, part of the inestimable Revels Plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama
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Journeyman
This new edition of Journeyman, Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for whom he wrote the unforgettable The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
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Ireland in crisis
This book presents new research on a crucial period in Irish history, looking at how individuals and institutions responded to an unprecedented crisis in church and state. It provides perspectives on the roles of English intervention, Confederate politics and the Catholic and Protestant churches,...
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Art history
Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history’s own history as a discipline from its e...
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Materials and medicine
Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare.
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My voice: peter mittler
Peter's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Peter Mittler was born in Vienna and escaped to England on the Kindertransport. He became an authority in policy and provision for adul...
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The later stuart church, 1660–1714
This book features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field to offer new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era. Sections on ideas and people include essays covering the royal supremacy, the theology of the later Stuart Church and clerical...
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Beef, bible and bullets
Beef, bible and bullets looks at the social, political and economic trends that brought a maverick right-wing populist to office in Latin America's largest economy.
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Reflections on the marxist theory of history
This book defends the Marxist theory of history through, first, a critique of its empiricist and postmodern critics, second, a practical demonstration of the power of Marxist historical writings, and, third, a survey of the powerful and influential methodological debates between Marxists.
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Women's writing of the first world war
A fully-rounded anthology of women's writing from World War One containing the known and unknown biographers and fiction writers of the period.. Explores the impact of the war on ideology, gender, genre and society and is a perfect complimentary text to Trudi Tate's Women Men and the Great War.. ...
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Sean connery
This ground-breaking study provides an authoritative account of the career of this iconic star. It illuminates his early work, his role as James Bond and his later reinvention as father-mentor and screen legend. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it will be essential reading for those interested...
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The poetry of carol ann duffy
The first full-length collection of essays on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy's poetry is both respected by academics, and widely read and enjoyed by both children and adults. Approaches Duffy's work from a variety of literary theoretical perspectives, including feminism, masculinity, nation...
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Botany, sexuality and women's writing, 1760–1830
In this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women’s engagement with the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, and his unsettling discovery ...
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Our fighting sisters
Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century. Our Fighting Sisters is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962.
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Critical theory and sociological theory
Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, this book investigates how the conditions of democratic statehood have changed at key historical intervals since 1945. It argues that a sociological approach is needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the mechanisms of democr...
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Three sixteenth-century dietaries
Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern edition of three of the most important dietaries of the time - with the texts offering advice on the best ways to maintain well-being.
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Debates on stalinism
Debates on Stalinism introduces major debates about Stalinism during and after the Cold War. It introduces major debates and major historians of the Soviet Union during the brutal reign of Stalin. Readers will better understand not only the history of our current understanding of Stalinism but al...
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Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of england
Seeking to better understand what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people’s relationships with time.
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The lancashire witches
This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire.
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My voice: jack aizenberg
Jack's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. As a child, Jack experienced life in hiding, working in a munitions factory and in the harrowing conditions of concentration camps, befo...
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Political ecologies of the far right
This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect.
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The atlantic economy
Examines how the economic power of Britain and the US limits the opportunities for small states to develop. Follows the history of the Atlantic economy since the sixteenth century and shows how Ireland's repeated attempts to industrialise were transformed by British and American power. Explains t...
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Hot metal
Hot Metal focuses on the experience of Australian print-workers between the 1960s and 1980s, concentrating on labour, production, design and culture in the context of deindustrialisation.
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Decolonizing images
Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt’s local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals in a compl...
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Immigrant england, 1300–1550
Immigrant England tells the story of thousands of people who migrated to later medieval England. The book draws on uniquely rich evidence about the lives of these men and women, and analyses the attitudes of the English to the foreigners in their midst. Essential reading for everyone interested i...
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Water and fire
The story of Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons, ranging...
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Doing digital history
A practical guide to digital history, which shows just how much can be done without writing any code. This book will give researchers in history or related fields the skills and confidence to approach existing digital resources and to create their own. Assuming no prior knowledge, the guide focus...
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Queen henrietta's men and the cockpit repertory
This book offers the first extended study of Queen Henrietta’s Men, one of Caroline London’s most important professional theatre companies. It explores the material and cultural conditions under which the company operated, and the dynamics that held between new drama written for the company and t...
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Hong kong and british culture, 1945–97
A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and British engagement with China. This highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in the wider, post-imperial setting.
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Roy ward baker
This book traces the career of one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry over more than sixty years, who directed landmark British films, worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Rank in Hollywood, moved to television series such as 'The Avengers' and re-emerged as a major...
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Supernatural bodies
This book examines the role of supernatural bodies in public debates about religion, science, culture and modernity in modern Britain and Ireland. In turn, the prism of supernatural bodies reveals how those debates were interlinked, and how the forms of knowledge that informed them were produced.
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Hollywood behind the wall
A representative history of East German film culture from 1946 to the present, offering close readings both of DEFA's celebrated classics and of the most acclaimed post-unification films.
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Children’s rights and child protection
This topical book comprehensively draws together diverse perspectives from key leaders in the field to address critical issues for children in relation to their rights, welfare and protection at a critical time in Ireland.
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Thorough surveillance
Traces the genesis of Israeli policies and tactics of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinians
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Vanishing for the vote
Investigates the boycott of the 1911 census by Suffragettes
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Galatea and midas
Two of John Lyly's most engaging plays
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History and memory
History and memory supplies an accessible and readable introduction to recent work on memory in history and other disciplines, and contributes to debate on the nature and significance of history as an intellectual discipline.
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Shakespeare by mcbean
A play-by-play picture compendium of the world’s greatest dramatist as captured by the world’s greatest theatre photographer
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The family of love
The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times.
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Theatre under the nazis
This is the first book to appear in English about theatre from the entire Nazi period (1933–45)
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Rhetoric and the writing of history, 400–1500
Rhetoric and the writing of history provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe between c.400 and c.1500 and argues that its sophistication and complexity provides a much-needed perspective on more modern debates over the relationship b...
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The early modern english sonnet
This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both with major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Harvey, Barnes) sonneteers, and includes the first modern edition of a 1603 printed miscellany, T...
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Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789–1848
An accessible and innovative analysis of how political groups used and contested spaces and places in protest. It uses a wide range of interesting sources, from Home Office correspondence to local magistrates, diaries and autobiographies, local newspapers, together with spatial analysis of sites ...
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The gentleman's mistress
This book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage, family, kinship and gender, it challenges assumptions about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to elite culture.
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Paramilitary loyalism
Takes a provocative second look at paramilitary loyalism. Based on extensive documentary and oral evidence from former combatants, politicians and key interlocutors.
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The rise of devils
A vivid account of the rise of terrorism in the late nineteenth century and the hysterical media response it provoked
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Ice humanities
This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice and the need to understand better why, where, and how it matters to human and more than human life.
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European cities
European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a collection of empirical and theoretical scholarly analyses of multiple urban processes across the East-West European divide, inviting the reader to reimagine urban Europe from non-Eurocentric perspectives, and to engage active thought and thou...
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Women, dowries and agency
Examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage
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Mundane methods
Mundane Methods brings together an exciting array of interdisiplinary approaches to researching the extra-ordinary everyday. Covering themes of materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, the collection is a practical, hands-on guide for students and scholars intereste...
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Borrowed objects and the art of poetry
This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia – creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection.
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Straight nation
Straight Nation dissects nationalism in postcolonial Singapore, exposing its reliance on the governance of sexuality. Dispelling liberal ideas of the nation, the book highlights nationalism's threatening nature and calls for an expansive, non-identarian approach to dismantling the entrenched hete...
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Shakespeare's storms
Explains the special effects used to represent storms in the early modern playhouses, and details how those effects filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language. With chapters on Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Pericles and The Tempest
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Not magic but work
Newly available in paperback, this is a detailed description of the intensive work process involved in the making of Toy Symphony, a play by Michael Gow, directed by Neil Armfield and brought to the stage for the first time in December 2007 by Company B at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney. Dr...
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Karl polanyi
This volume makes a significant contribution to the new economic sociology. It draws upon a Polanyian foundation but moves forward, developing neo-Polanyian agendas in relation to developments of contemporary capitalism.
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The pope and the pill
This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in post-war England. It offers a fresh perspective on the idea that ‘sex killed God’, reframing dominant approaches to the histories of sex, religion and so...
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Exploring history 1400–1900
This book offers a broad sweep of 500 years of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and state-formation. This book illuminates links between concurrent events in diverse places and provides insights into the daily concerns and critical debates...
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The new inn
The New Inn is one of the most neglected of Jonson's plays which is now finding a new and appreciative audience. The spelling has been modernised and the text updated and corrected for this paperback edition. There is also a critical introduction, helpful appendices and a commentary which explai...
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Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices
The book explores missing person issues and human disappearances from an anthropological perspective. It analyses reasons behind disappearances and the political and practical ways of dealing with them, suggesting a conceptual framework for understanding disappearances across varying political an...
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Chantal akerman
This book on internationally acclaimed film director Chantal Akerman provides an illuminating overview of her filmmaking and an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style.
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Northern ireland a generation after good friday
This book captures the complex and often contradictory realities of the region’s peace process. Across nine original essays, the authors provide a critical and comprehensive reading of a society that seems to have left its violent past behind but at the same time remains subject to its gravitatio...
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The independent man
This book explores changing notions of political and personal virtue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and offers a new account of masculinity and citizenship in English culture.
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The witch of edmonton
The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre. The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother Sawyer and her local community in the grip of...
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The interpreters
This book analyses British attitudes on southeastern Europe in the period between 1870-1930.
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Women poets of the english civil war
Featuring modernised spelling and detailed explanatory notes, this anthology of Civil War-era women poets is perfect for students of English literature and early modern studies.
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The invisible painting
In this memoir, Gabriel Weisz Carrington, son of the renowned Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother and declare her not an icon or a goddess but, first and foremost, an artist.
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Hélène cixous
A lucid, original and inventive critical introduction to Helene Cixous (1937-). Royle offers close readings of many of her works, from Inside (1969) to the present. He foregrounds Cixous's importance for 'English literature' as well as creative writing, autobiography, narrative theory, psychoanal...
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The lady’s trial
The first scholarly edition of a little-known play by a major Renaissance playwright, which interestingly reworks Othello.
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Debt as power
Debt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The...
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Women and museums, 1850–1914
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing domestic objects and domestic regimes of ...
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Coup in damascus
Coup in Damascus explores Syria's 1949 military coup by focusing on cost-driven political action. Rihan affirms that flawed monetary policies, disrupted trade, and recurrent economic interventionism led to the rise of authoritarianism, thereby offering a fresh interdisciplinary perspective on Mid...
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Gender, artwork and the global imperative
A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s
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Mobilizing nature
Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known conflicts whilst uncovering the largely 'hidden' history of the numerous military bases and other installations that pepper the French countryside.
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The northern ireland troubles in britain
This book investigates the history of responses to, engagements with and memories of the Northern Irish conflict in Britain, exploring the lessons to be learned from post-conflict efforts to 'deal with the past' in Northern Ireland and providing a starting point for wider academic and public deba...
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British civilian internees in germany
This book tells the forgotten story of four to five thousand British civilians who were interned at the Ruhleben camp near Berlin during the First World War. Together they formed a unique community in the heart of enemy territory, based on a diverse and extremely rich culture of enduring signific...
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Modern carmelite nuns and contemplative identities
This book examines how modern Catholic contemplative nuns in the Netherlands envisioned their spirituality, offering a contextualised exploration of the discourses they adopted to shape their identity as a female spiritual elite in a male-dominated church and society.
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Ephemeral city
Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance
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The 1922 committee
The 1922 Committee is seen as the kingmaker in Conservative politics. This book provides a comprehensive account of its history, structure and influence.
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The ira 1956–69
An in depth study of the IRA in the years leading up to the conflict that broke out in 1969. This book explores the internal divisions that existed within the IRA and Sinn Fein in this period.
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Women in italy 1350–1650
This enlightening book aims to fill the gap in the literature on women's lives from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, a time in which Italian urban societies saw much debate on the nature of women and on their roles, education and behaviour. Indeed these were debates which would ...
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Health, disease and society in europe, 1800–1930
Provides readers with unrivalled access to a comprehensive range of sources on the provision of medical care during the nineteenth centrury
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