-
Charlotte Smith
This book offers a thorough and complete reading of Charlotte Smith's poetry, arguing that we need to engage more directly with historical ideas of gender.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Full participation
Full participation is the first book-length study of compulsory voting to be published in the English language. The volume provides a comprehensive description, analysis and evaluation of an institution that is becoming increasingly attractive in the context of declining rates of electoral partic...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
The English Constitution
This book centres constitutional reform in discussions of England and Englishness, and centres England in debates on constitutional reform. It includes the text of a constitution that builds on the heritage and tradition of Westminster Model democracy, combining long-overdue reforms with the rest...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Old Fortunatus
Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker’s Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition mak...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Imperialism and Popular Culture
Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalis...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Religion in history
This is an exceptional collection of essays that looks at the issues of conflict, conversion and coexistence in the religious context since the third century
Regular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price per -
Modern European cinema and love
Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors working from the 1950s onwards whose films contain stories about and reflections on romantic love and marriage.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
War and politics in the Elizabethan counties
Reassesses the national war effort during the Elizabethan wars against Spain (1585–1603). Drawing on a mass of hitherto neglected sources, it finds a political system in much better health than has been thought, revising many existing assumptions about the weaknesses of the state in the face of m...
Read MoreRegular price £35.00Sale price £35.00 Regular price £35.00Unit price per -
The clamour of nationalism
How does the current nationalist moment within British political culture, most acutely evidenced in the recent Brexit result, capture such a broad cross-section of constituenciess? Valluvan propose a theorisation of contemporary nationalist ascendancy which addresses this question head-on.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
As Good as a Marriage
The authoritative sequel to Female Fortune, continuing the diaries of Anne Lister up to 1838, when she was at her most powerful.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Margaret Harkness
This collection places the life and work of Margaret Harkness at the heart of a broader consideration of the socially turbulent decades around the turn of the twentieth century in order to illuminate historical forms of women’s political activism.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
Sixteenth-century identities
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Socio-ideological fantasy and the Northern Ireland conflict
This application of a Lacanian method of analysis has great potential for informing the way we understand and study all inter-religious and ethnic conflicts. It could be integrated with efficiency in peace building processes and thus deserves to be developed in the art of conflict management.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
These Englands
A conversation about what Enghlish national identity actually means.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Emotional monasticism
Drawing on the devotional culture of John of Fécamp’s Norman monastery, Emotional monasticism exposes the monastic roots of medieval affective piety, casts a new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the history of C...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
End of empire and the English novel since 1945
First book-length critical work devoted to the impact of the end of empire and traces of imperial memory in mainstream English Literature since the Second World War. Authors studied include Josephine Tey, William Golding, Penelope Lively, David Peace and Ian McEwan. Represents the best of current...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dre...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Victorian touring actresses
Victorian touring actresses provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century theatre and the careers of previously neglected British women who had once starred at home and abroad. Chapters explore debuts, establishing a name, working life in the UK, touring North America, long-distance colonial...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Safe as houses
As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.Stuart Hodkinson has those answers.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Frontiers of servitude
Based on little-examined printed and archival sources, this book explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery, c. 1620-1750. It analyses the three central questions of what made one a slave, of what was unique about Caribbean labour, and the implications of s...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Anarchism and eugenics
This book traces the convergence between anarchism, as an anti-authoritarian, anti-statist political doctrine, and eugenics, the science of ‘race improvement’ in five countries between 1890 and 1940.
Regular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price per -
Design and popular entertainment
Design and Popular Entertainment offers a selection of nine essays that examine the range of design for popular entertainment, from theatre and film, to television and radio.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
The renewal of post-war Manchester
The renewal cities of Britain, those that began their reconstruction after 1960, are rich in utopian visions. This book delves into Manchester's visual history, mapping legislative shifts, Cold War dynamics, decolonisation and the surge of consumerism.
Regular price £40.00Sale price £40.00 Regular price £40.00Unit price per -
Making social democrats
This book, a collection of essays by some of Britain’s leading academics, public intellectuals and political practitioners, seeks to engage with the ‘big picture’ of British social democracy, both historical and contemporary, and point to grounds for greater optimism for its future prospects.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
The ignorant bystander?
The Rwandan genocide was one of the bloodiest events in the late twentieth century and the international community’s response has stimulated a great deal of interest and debate ever since. In this study, Dean White provides the most thorough review of Britain’s response to the crisis written to d...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Reform and the papacy in the eleventh century
Assessing the relationship between reform and the papacy in eleventh-century Europe from the perspectives of social and religious change, this book fills a gap in current literature and offers new insights into an important topic in medieval history
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Parliament today
'Parliament today' is an up-to-date textbook, placing parliament in its historical, constitutional and social context, focusing on how it operates in modern Britain and how it might be reformed.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Leisure and cultural conflict in twentieth-century Britain
A collection of articles addressing research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, women’s ...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Law and healing
A critical and colourful commentary on the history of the fractious relationship between law and medicine over several centuries reveals compelling stories how law regulated healers and healing . Any view that the law consistently deferred to medical practitioners is shown to be wrong. From th...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Performance and Spanish film
Collection exploring in detail Spanish screen acting from the silent era to present.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
Transporting Chaucer
Argues for new relationships between Chaucer’s poetry and works by others
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
'Rendering to God and Caesar'
New in paperback. Addressing as it does aspects of the Northern Troubles, inter-church and church-state relations, Rendering to God and Caesar will appeal to a number of audiences with an interest in twentieth century Irish history across the globe.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
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...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Alain Robbe-Grillet
This lucid, comprehensive and fascinating study shows Robbe-Grillet’s contribution to the evolution of the cinematic art both in France and internationally to have been considerably more important than previously acknowledged.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Co-memory and melancholia
Explores the construction of collective memory in Israeli society in relation to the Palestinian Nakba.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Black flags and social movements
An in-depth analysis of contemporary anarchist movements, focusing upon who anarchists are, and where they may be found.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Migrants shaping Europe, past and present
This comparative collection makes the case for the sustained contribution of migrants to European literatures, arts and social cultures, in early modern times and today. Iberia/Maghreb, Sicily/Lampedusa and Calais provide key examples for composing this new chapter in cultural history.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Paul Auster
This study explores all of Auster's artistic output - both published and unpublished - for the first time, and considers, in considerable depth, his major themes of New York life, identity, community, writing and storytelling.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
El castigo sin venganza
An authoritative new critical edition of Lope de Vega’s best and best-known play that includes an introduction, commentary, selected vocabulary and footnotes for the English-speaking student.
Regular price £14.99Sale price £14.99 Regular price £14.99Unit price per -
Redefining Social Justice
This interdisciplinary book provides a timely analysis of the practical effects and potential limitations of New Labour rhetoric in the area of social justice and will be essentuial reading for anyone with hopes for the development of a more generous and inclusive vision of social justice for the...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
James Baldwin Review
The James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Sidney’s Arcadia and the conflicts of virtue
Wood reads Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of the Protestant theologian, Philip Melanchthon. He uses a critical paradigm previously used to discuss Sidney's Defence of Poesy and narrows the gap often found between Sidney's theory and l...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Partners in deterrence
The book explains how and why nuclear weapons cooperation between the US and its allies has evolved since the 1950s. By bringing institutional perspectives to the study of how alliances operate, it focuses on the objectives and sources of influence of US allies in Europe and Asia as they cooperat...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Images of Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell ranks as one of the most hotly debated figures in the whole of English history. This complex historiography has left us today with many different versions of Cromwell as man, general and statesman and the conflicting images are the subject of this book.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Music, words and voice
A new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. The first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationship between words and music and between musical and literary forms.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Scottish society 1707–1830
Scottish Society, 1707-1830 challenges much conventional wisdom and provides readers with many new insights into Scottish social and economic history.. Argues that the Union of 1707 was vital for Scottish success, but in ways which have hitherto been overlooked.. Contests received wisdom on issue...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Creativity and resistance in a hostile world
What can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, ‘do’? This book draws on original collaborative research that brings together a range of stories and perspectives on the role of creativity and resistance in a hostile world. In times of racial nationalism across the world...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Performing Presence
Performing presence: Between the live and the simulated proposes that the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of contemporary performance and media, has generated new engagements, practices and understandings of presence. Addressing new media art and performance, multi-media...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Empire and history writing in Britain c.1750–2012
Offers both a narrative and an analysis of the influence of British imperial involvements on history writing since 1750
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
The Crisis of Theory
This book is an intellectual biography of EP Thompson, as well as an exercise in the sociology of knowledge: as such, it considers not just Thompson’s ideas and arguments, but also the question of why he adopted those ideas, and made those arguments.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Children born of war in the twentieth century
This book explores the life courses of children born of warin different twentieth-century conflicts, from the Second World War to theRwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It is based on extensive archivalresearch, as well as oral history and participatory research methods, to addthe voices of th...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Sanctity as literature in late medieval Britain
Explores how sanctity and questions of literariness are intertwined across a range of medieval genres.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
London calling Italy
London calling Italy is a book about the BBC Italian Service during the Second World War. It examines the role of the Italian broadcasters, the programmes and their reception.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Shakespeare, Italy and intertextuality
Newly available in paperback, this collection of essays, written by distinguished international scholars, focuses on the structural influence of Italian literature, culture and society at large on Shakespeare's dramatic canon. Exploring recent methodological trends coming from Anglo-American new ...
Read MoreRegular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £30.00Unit price per -
Land and labour
This book is a history of the Potters’ Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early 1851. The Society, which became a national organisation after 1848, sought to solve the problems of surplus labour by turning workers into frontier farmers. It was the most significan...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Reading Robin Hood
Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France
The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by English republican ideas in eighteenth-century French moral and political thought
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Power, luck and freedom
Keith Dowding is a major figure in relation to debates on power and highly influential in the fields of political theory and political science. Power luck and freedom is a collection of his essays and articles, that provide a significant reference point for the field of power analysis.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Mainstreaming co-operation
This collection considers the transformation that has taken place over the last thirty years in the global position of co-operative and mutual business models, from the prevailing view of the investor-led model in the 1980s to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and revival of the co-opera...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
My Voice: Werner Lachs
Werner'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. Werner Lachs was born in Cologne and escaped to England thanks to an unknown intervention by a spy named Frank Foley. In later life, h...
Read MoreRegular price £13.99Sale price £13.99 Regular price £13.99Unit price per -
We all die at the end
As the ravages of climate change throw our future into question, many of our stories are turning to the subject of extinction. This book is about what they are saying and why it demands our attention.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
The Sea and International Relations
This path-breaking collection opens up the conversation about the sea and International Relations and probes the value of analyzing the sea in terms of International Relations.
Regular price £64.00Sale price £64.00 Regular price £64.00Unit price per -
Collaboration and interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters
This collection of fifteen essays by distinguished scholars covers aspects of interdisciplinarity and collaboration within the Republic of Letters. The essays include historical, theological, and literary topics and all focus on different means of communication of individuals between other intell...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Students and academics in Victorian literature and in English poetry.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
The annals of St-Bertin
A richly-annotated translation of the main source for the Carolingian world in the ninth century, covering the years 830 to 882
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
The diplomacy of decolonisation
The book reinterprets the role of the United Nations during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964 by presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance
This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval romance. The book argues that these themes are by nature entangled with the discourse of anti-Judaism, which can be turned inwardly to expose irresolution within Christianity itself.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
University engagement and environmental sustainability
Details the challenges faced by higher education institutions in considering environmental sustainability
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Tadeusz Kowalik and Poland's return to capitalism through socialism
This book covers the intellectual and political life of Tadeusz Kowalik within the context of modern Polish history. Kowalik was part of a group of left-wing intellectuals, the Polish School; he participated in events such as the shipyard strikes in 1980 before becoming a vehement opponent of Pol...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Theatre, education and the making of meanings
The book is a study of theatre's educational role in the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised by the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre a...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Film modernism
An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan
The comparative ethnography of young airtime sellers in Abidjan and delivery riders in Berlin analyses experiences of precarity for young men in the urban digital economy. It points to the relevance of symbolic capital in relational mechanisms of closure, domination and exploitation for making a ...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
The Twelfth-century Renaissance
This volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period c.1050-c.1250An up-to-date survey of previous historical work in this field, the book provides a useful starting point for those new to this period. . . .
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Eternal light and earthly concerns
This book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle Ages.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Mary and Philip
This book presents a new interpretation of the co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II. It reclaims Mary as a great Catholic queen and fleshes out Philip’s contributions as king, exposing the sectarian historiography that has cast their reign in a negative light. An important corrective for the histo...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Russian Grand Strategy in the era of global power competition
This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia's international activity: is Moscow acting strategically or opportunistically, and should this be understood in regional or global terms?
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
The women's liberation movement in Scotland
The first book-length account of the women's liberation movement (WLM) in Scotland
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Transport and the industrial city
Focusing on Manchester, this book shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester’s industrial revolution –coal, corn, and cotton – but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester th...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
My Voice: Ike Alterman
Ike Alterman'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. Ike was born in Poland in 1928, survived forced labour camps including Auschwitz-Birkenau, and went on to live in Manchester and...
Read MoreRegular price £13.99Sale price £13.99 Regular price £13.99Unit price per -
The Italian Resistance
Anthology of key extracts, in Italian - both literary and non-literary.. Introduction and notes in English.. Contains material which would mesh well with various standard set texts, such as Pavese, Bittorini, Calvino, Viganò.. A unique selection - no competing Italian edition.
Regular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price per -
Useful Art
Useful Art explores how art can be a tool for activism and resistance against neoliberalism. Highlighting projects from urban regeneration to community gardens, it showcases how art can foster inclusion, reclaim local knowledge, and drive real-world change.
Regular price £13.99Sale price £13.99 Regular price £13.99Unit price per -
Republican learning
Argues that far from being a marginal and insignificant figure, Toland counted queens, princes and government ministers as his friends and political associates
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Narration in nineteenth-century French short fiction
Focuses on some key stories by major authors of contes and nouvelles from the late 1820s to the 1890s.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
The age of Obama
As the world marvelled at a black family moving into the White House, arguments raged over whether America’s race relations had truly been transformed. This book looks at the hard facts of life for minorities on both side of the Atlantic, providing an illuminating comparative picture of diversity.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 97/2
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.
Regular price £35.00Sale price £35.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Pauper policies
A fresh perspective, which reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
A sense of place
This pioneering study examines regional British television drama from its beginnings on the BBC and ITV in the 1950s to the arrival of Channel Four in 1982. It discusses the ways in which regionalism, regional culture and regional identity have been defined, outlines the history of regional broad...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
European politics today
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the political system and processes of western Europe. Demonstrates clearly that political decisions are made in the context of specific historical developments, geographical constraints and social demands. Fully updated to take account of the recent French...
Read MoreRegular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price per
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
