The capitalist mode of destruction

This book investigates capitalism’s mounting destructiveness. Tracing today’s economic, ecological and democratic crises to capitalism’s undemocratic use of the surplus, Panayotakis highlights the necessity of a democratic classless society, which would restore control of the surplus to those who...

The political economy of turkey’s integration into europe

The political economy of Turkey’s integration into Europe studies the trajectory of Turkey’s integration with Europe from a critical political economy perspective in the last two decades.

Discourse, normative change and the quest for reconciliation in global politics

This book offers a new and critical perspective on the global reconciliation technology by highlighting its contingent and highly political character as an authoritative practice of post-conflict peacebuilding. After retracing the emergence of the reconciliation discourse from South Africa to the...

Edmund spenser's shepheardes calender (1579)

Recontextualizing Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender in relation to book history, this study analyses the first edition of 1579 as a material text, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile available as a book. By illuminating the 1579 Calender’s development, this volume much advances ...

Constructing foucault's ethics

The work of Michel Foucault has had a huge influence on contemporary philosophy, but one thing it lacks is a normative ethical framework. Seeking to construct an ethics consistent with Foucault’s core postulates, this study advances the concept of ‘life continuance’, an approach it contrasts with...

Hospital aesthetics

Hospital aesthetics argues that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics, where artists are taking health and care into their own hands and body-minds. Disabled artists are contributing to a type of disability activism that can simultaneously improve mainstream bioethi...

Martin del rio

This is the first English translation of one of the most important, interesting and comprehensive discussions of the occult sciences ever published.

Realism and popular cinema

This groundbreaking study engages with the theoretical aspects of realism - a long neglected area in film studies.. Contributes to an understanding of how popular films use realist forms to address contentious social and political issues such as social exclusion, war and violence.. Focusing on ke...

Popular cinema in brazil, 1930–2001

This ground-breaking study provides an entertaining insight into popular film in Brazil, situating major box-office successes such as 'Central Station' (Walter Salles, 1998), in their socio-historical context.

In the wake of the great rebellion

On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At the dock stood a former Trinity College student standing trial for heading a rebellion on 23 July 1803. Drawing on an intriguing range of sources, Patterson offers a comprehensive insight in...

Reading shakespeare's mind

An accessible, enjoyable, occasionally speculative study based on a vast amount of research into some of Shakespeare's more uninterpretable moments.

The social and cultural impact of foot and mouth disease in the uk in 2001

The 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic in the UK had a devastating and long-lasting impact on individuals and communities. Although many studies about FMD have been published since 2001, this is the first book to examine in any detail the ways in which the outbreak affected the fabric of rural ...

Calvinist churches in early modern europe

A wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of the impact of the European Reformation on the architecture, arrangement and appearance of places of worship.

Jack the ripper

Jack the Ripper: Media, culture, history re-assesses the most important and sensational murder case of the nineteenth century. Leading scholars in the fields of history, media and cultural studies debate the influence of 'Jack' on race, gender, the press, fiction, film and the city of London.

Brothers in the great war

A study of the emotional experiences of brothers and sisters in the First World War and its aftermath. Affectionate sibling bonds sustained the war generation both at home and on the front line, providing a lateral perspective on our understanding of domestic and military masculinities and the lo...

Imperial inequalities

This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories. It focuses on processes of colonial taxation and, primarily, national welfare to examine the ways in which today’s global inequalities are the result of such connec...

War, disability and rehabilitation in britain

Through a series of thematic chapters, this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation to rehabilitative practices established in Britain during and immediately following the Second World War.

The agency phenomenon in the european union

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the agency phenomenon in the European Union. It takes stock of the emergence and development of EU agencies, providing insight into the characteristics as well as the consequences of the ongoing EU agencification process.

The violence of colonial photography

This book offers a new account of the development of conflict photography. It explores how the new technology of the camera was used in the British and French empires as a means of controlling subject populations, and how these populations found ways of turning the technology against their oppres...

Cultivating political and public identity

This bold and original study looks at the performance of identity in the public sphere, using the concept of 'plumage' to capture the countless elements that go together to make up a shared identity.

Conflict, peace and mental health

What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.

Madness on trial

This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey.

Photographic realism

Discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates. Focusing on conceptual and political projects between 1970 and the turn of the century, it draws parallels between issues discussed in theory and those displayed visually in practice.

Security after the unthinkable

Starting with the astonishing lone-wolf terrorist attacks in Oslo and Utøyain July 2011 and the extraordinary mutation in security thinking that happened in its aftermath, this book develops an innovative theory of terrorism as the enchantment of danger.

Art as worldmaking

This collection is a response to Alex Potts’s provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading art historians explore Pott’s recasting of realism, providing a new understanding of artworks dating from the eighth to twenty-first centuries and challenging established th...

‘no historie so meete’

This book explores the importance of history to Elizabethan and early Stuart gentry and how this led to a vibrant antiquarian culture. The family, town and county histories written by the community, which form the core of the study, had an influence on the development of local history in England ...

Narrative painting in nineteenth-century europe

How do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.

Warrior dreams

Presents new insights on Scotland’s international image at the beginning of the twenty-first century

Sounds of liberty

Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and distance. It brings to light the importance of music in the lived experience of politics of those who composed, performed and consumed it. It provid...

Ellen n. la motte

Using unexamined sources, including diaries and unpublished manuscripts, this biography traces the life and work of nurse, writer, and activist Ellen N. La Motte (1873-1961), examining how she developed as a professional in the early twentieth century.

The british political elite and europe, 1959-1984

This book is an historical examination of the impact short-term political expediency played in the positions adopted by members of Britain’s political elites in the debates over Europe. It advances the argument that many MPs failed to consider the long-term implications of membership.

Queering the gothic

A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition.

Globalizing democracy

This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the ‘democratic project’ which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first concern presented here is normative and epistemological: as democracy becomes mo...

Worlding the south

Prioritising south-south networks and relations, this collection brings together for the first time literary studies of British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific Islands. It argues for the importance of a new ...

Intellectual disability

This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and ...

Beyond observation

A comprehensive history of ethnographic film since cinema began in 1895. It shows how the genre evolved out of reportage, exotic melodrama and travelogues prior to the Second World War into a more academic form of documentary in the post-war period.

Jimmy perry and david croft

Offers an analysis of the four collaborative sitcoms of Jimmy Perry and David Croft, 'Dad's Army', 'It Ain't half Hot, Mum!', 'Hi-de-Hi!' and 'You Rang M'Lord?'. Considers the themes and ideas that run through the series in terms of their representation of class and gender, and in terms of other ...

The victorians since 1901

An important and stimulating volume surveying changing attitudes towards the Victorians in academia and popular culture in the twentieth century. Essential reading for students of Victorian Studies, Modern History and Cultural Studies.

Myth and materiality in a woman’s world

Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran households and crofts without men. They maintained families and communities because men were absent. And they constructed in t...

How to be a historian

What is unique about this volume is that is explores the history of historical studies through the prism of ‘scholarly personae’ (models of virtue, embodying how to be a historian). It offers a stimulating new perspective on the unity, or disunity, of historical scholarship as it existed in ninet...

Women in england, 1275–1525

This collection of sources demonstrates the variety of evidence that survives of English women in all walks of life from the time of Edward I to the eve of the Reformation. The sources are introduced by a substantial overview of current thinking about English medieval women below the level of the...

The republican line

The first full study of French political caricature during the critical years of the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, when caricature was wielded as a political weapon, so much so that in 1835 the French politician Adolphe Thiers claimed that ‘nothing was more dangerous’ than graphic satire.

Devolution in the uk

Using previously unpublished primary, as well as a wealth of secondary material, this bookffers a comprehensive account explaining the evolution of devolution, from territorial Ministries and Stormont through to the present arrangements.

The time of european governance

This book is about the impact of European governance on the time of national policymakers and institutions. It shows how European policymaking changes over time, how a new temporal logic has developed and the effect of this on EU institutions.

Time and relative dissertations in space

This fascinating book takes the reader on a rich and varied study of one of the greatest television programmes of all time: Doctor Who. Combining essays from academics in Screen Studies with practitioners who have contributed to the ongoing narrative of Doctor Who, this collection is the first to...

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 ...

Through the keyhole

This interdisciplinary study of the modern formation of concepts of public decency in France proceeds through a focus on the word pudeur (modesty), following its incidence across a wide range of cultural domains.

Corporate and white-collar crime in ireland

The first definitive examination of the practice of corporate regulation and enforcement from the foundation of the Irish State to the present day.

The continental connection

This study is a major appraisal of the contributions of German-speaking émigrés to British cinema from the late 1920s to the end of World War II.

Amitav ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is the first full-length critical monograph on this important post-colonial contemporary writer to be published outside India. It offers in-depth analysis of all Ghosh's major fictional and non-fictional works and is an authoritative introduction to the themes, ideas and contexts tha...

Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers

Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates Angela Carter’s feminist politics through the lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to her European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary pract...

The dolby era

This book tells the story of the arrival of Dolby onto the film scene in the early 70s, and its profound impact on Hollywood filmmakers and audiences worldwide.

Five directors

Looks at Francophone filmmakers - those who are working in the French language. Contains an excellent appraisal of the auteurist concept's meaning and value to Francophone cinema. The five directors are among the most acclaimed contemporary film makers: Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, the Darde...

Early modern drama and the theatre of war

This volume explores the disruptive effects of war and social unrest in early modern drama, offering new examinations of militarism, the soldier-figure and early modern theories of war in Shakespearean tragedy, history and comedy.

Destruction and human remains

Investigates what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed

The impact of immigration

The breakup of india and palestine

These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947. It focuses on the shared dynamics that shaped both regions, such as violence, the role of religion in politics, majoritarian politics, and the persistence of imperial modes of power.

Marcel pagnol

First and only comprehensive overview of Pagnol’s career in English, and the only book in any language to link Pagnol's early career as a playwright with his controversial theories of cinema and his work as a film director.

Cricket and broadcasting

Cricket and broadcasting discusses the roles of radio and television within English cricket since the beginnings of broadcasting. It explains how and why cricket has been increasingly shaped by its relationship with broadcasting.

Beckett on screen

This ground-breaking study analyses Beckett’s television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialogue with innovative television traditions connected to Modernism in television, film, radio, theatre, literature and the visual arts.

Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture

Exploring representations of happiness and other positive emotions in early modern Europe, this volume brings together interdisciplinary approaches informed by affect theory, history of emotions research, and the contemporary cognitive sciences to highlight the meanings and valuations of good fee...

Ireland, africa and the end of empire

In the twenty years after Ireland joined the UN in 1955, one subject dominated its fortunes: Africa. The first detailed study of Ireland’s relationship with that continent, this book documents its special place in Irish history.

Bulletin of the john rylands library 96/2

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

Crafting identities

What did it mean to be an artisan in early modern London? Through an innovative and inter-disciplinary approach to urban social, cultural and architectural histories, this book examines how individual and corporate identities were forged through negotiation of the spatial and material cultures of...

The ‘malleus maleficarum‘ and the construction of witchcraft

Shows the Malleus, a very well known and widely quoted medieval text, to be highly idiosyncratic, and unusual in its ideas, even among the texts of other contemporary witch-theorists

How to save politics in a post-truth era

This book argues that the relationship between methodology and politics is now more important than ever – that politics, if it is anything, is about engaging with people’s interpretations and narratives of the world in which they find themselves.

Europe on the move

Europe on the move is the first book to address the dramatic and poignant refugee crisis that erupted during the First World War and that enveloped the entire continent. Written by specialists in the field it will appeal to all those who are interested in the era of the First World War and in Eur...

Friends and enemies

This history examines the fraternal friendships and embittered masculine conflicts among British, American, and Irish leaders and their Dublin-based advisers during the Second World War, as those leaders sought to secure – or reject – Ireland’s alliance with the Western Allied powers in their exi...

Covert colonialism

This book is the first comprehensive archive-based study to explore governance, surveillance, political culture and public policymaking in colonial Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997, using newly released archival documents in London and Hong Kong. Using historical discipline, it provides a thorough und...

The james bond phenomenon

Sean Connery’s tuxedo, Ursula Andress’ bikini, Oddjob’s bowler hat, and Q’s gadgets are just a few defining features of the 007 world examined in The James Bond phenomenon. Drawn from the fields of literary, film, music, and cultural studies, the essays in this collection range from revitalised r...

College communities abroad

A comparative study of the colleges established by Irish, English and Scots Catholics across Europe through the early modern period.

Late modernist poetics

'Late modernist poetics' explores the uncanny afterlife of modernist ideals in the second half of the twentieth century. Contextually and theoretically wide-ranging, the book focuses on poetry of Britain, Europe and the United States.

Spanish visual culture

This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital themes: emtion, location and nostalgia.

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...

Exporting empire

Looks at the attitudes of colonial officials in Africa who served between the end of the19th century and WWII, as well as what shaped such attitudes, including education and training, interrelationships, infrastructural change, and anti-colonial nationalism.

Leonora carrington and the international avant-garde

The first comprehensive examination of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), a major twentieth-century writer and multi-media artist. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary, and artistic currents that animate her relationships with avant-garde movements throughout the ...

Shakespeare's storms

Explains he special effects used to represent storms in the earl 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

Becoming a mother

This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and contin...

The bad german and the good italian

This book describes how Italy elaborated a master narrative of the Second World War that evades the faults of Mussolini's fascist war by attributing all responsibility on the shoulders of the German ally

Women before the court

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire. It shows how the expansion of women’s legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the h...

Ian mcewan

The most up-to-date survey of the leading British novelist of his generation, offering the fullest account to date of McEwan's sources, especially concerning his interest in popular science.

Religion and politics in elizabethan england

This book provides a full account of the life and career of the Elizabethan politician and courtier Sir Christopher Hatton. A loyal favourite and minister of a Protestant queen, he was also a patron and protector of Catholics. This account of Hatton opens a new window into the complex religious p...

The political philosophy of jean-jacques rousseau

This exciting new text presents the first overview of Jean Jacques Rousseau's work from a political science perspective. Was Rousseau--the great theorist of the French Revolution--really a conservative?

The uk financial system

The fifth edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date discussion of the UK financial system and the changes currently affecting it.

Literature and sustainability

This edited collection brings together twelve essays by leading and upcoming scholars, the aim of which is to contribute critically to conceptions of sustainability from the standpoint of environmental literary scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in ecocrit...

The debate on the crusades, 1099–2010

This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody wars...