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Housing justice
A groundbreaking collection examining housing as a site of both dispossession and liberation under contemporary racial capitalism. Through global case studies, contributors reveal how structural violence operates through dwelling while documenting grassroots struggles for just habitation beyond c...
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Critical theory and peace processes
Drawing from Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, this book examines the dynamics of peace processes in Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the France intervention in Darfur. It furthers the critical theory research agenda by providing a novel understanding of the role of civil society in shaping t...
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Money’s infrastructures
This book looks at money’s infrastructures as combinations of materiality, space, desire and political economy, by observing a cryptocurrency company in cross-border payments and situating it in the longer history of money’s technologies.
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France and the world
A critical introduction to the emerging field of ‘France and the world’, analysing France’s extraterritorial relationships across the modern era through conceptually grounded case studies and a synthetic framework for understanding global, imperial, and transnational entanglements.
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Spirits of extraction
An exploration of the historical intersections of the mining industry, Methodist evangelical Christianity, civilisational education, and the modern metaphysics of race. Contributing to theories of race and racism by insisting on the enduring role of religious biopolitics and Christianising educat...
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The poet on stage 1558–1660
A study of how early modern drama from 1558–1660 depicts the poet as a socially ambivalent figure, examining professional identity, patronage and literary value through lesser read plays to illuminate poetic status and cultural attitudes.
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Demystifying informal urban design and planning
Borrowing from Isaiah Berlin’s foxes vs hedgehogs and Gregory Treverton’s puzzle vs mystery solving analogies, this book encourages urban designers to be multitaskers like foxes, rather than hedgehogs who can do one thing right. Thinking this way allows them to better engage with and unravel the ...
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The Birth of the Work of Art
Ragnar Josephson’s The Birth of the Work of Art places the sketch at the heart of creativity, tracing how artworks emerge through vision, revision, and transformation. Published in English for the first time, it offers a groundbreaking theory of artistic process, accompanied by new essays on its ...
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Toronto New Wave cinema and the anarchist-apocalypse
This book explores the Toronto New Wave, a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with anarchist themes and aesthetics
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Revolution in China and Russia
This book compares how Russia and China maneuvered nationalism through communist revolutions and explains why they followed different paths in reorganizing empires.
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Contemporary Slavic horror across media
An anthology of essays devoted to Slavic horror fiction assesses current trends in East/Central European horror media, with focus on the mid-20th century to the present, and in particular the post-Soviet period.
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Navigating platform power
Navigating Platform Power unpacks the relationship between digital infrastructures, political agency, and resistance. The book cultivates a theoretical dialogue across disciplines and perspectives and provides essential conceptual tools for understanding—and transforming—the conditions of politic...
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The king’s hand
The king’s hand offers a fresh retelling of Thomas Cromwell’s career foregrounding his application of letters as a tool for control, using quantitative network analysis to explore epistolary structures and Cromwell’s power as Henry VIII’s right hand man and ‘most faithful servant’.
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Critical games
Critical Games is about the games we play, the ways we play them, and what happens when they get out of hand. With readings of a range of cultural texts, from the Ancient Greeks to contemporary auto-fiction, it pinpoints what is critical in games and game-playing.
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Multiple and One
This book examines queer and trans* global art practices through creolization, opacity and curatorial knowledge-making, offering decolonising approaches to art history across transcultural contexts from South Florida to Europe, the Americas and east Asia.
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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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Critical theory and Independent Living
This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people’s Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled people for self-determination.
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Making our own art history
This book traces how Feminist Arts News shaped the women’s art movement by documenting and producing feminist cultural politics, drawing on archival research to explore its role as a decentralised network for artistic, political and intellectual exchange.
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Play time
An important re-theorisation of medieval gender and anti-Semitism, centring biblical drama as a source of evidence for lay attitudes towards scriptural time. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with a superseded Jewish past, the book asks how this model is subverted by characters who experi...
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Beyond the BBFC
This work explores the censorship of film at local level and charts the chronological development of local film censorship systems, mechanisms and apparatus. Using archival material from a range of different locations across the UK, a more nuanced and complex picture of local film censorship acti...
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Inspecting the home
This book is a comparative urban history of the implementation of early public legislation in nineteenth-century France. Through exploring the fusion of religious, medical, political, architectural, and bureaucratic topics and drawing on a range of archival sources, this book offers an essential ...
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Joining up in the Second World War
Joining up explores men’s encounters with representations of the First World War in interwar Britain, and illuminates how these informed their understandings of the First World War and how those understandings shaped their attitudes to Second World War enlistment and their conceptions of masculin...
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Speculative endeavors
This book focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society, and highlights the strategies that minoritarian subjects developed to understand and navigate these complex cultures of knowledge and capital.
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Beautiful doom
The first multi-authored volume on the work of contemporary British writer Dennis Kelly, Beautiful Doom examines the full range of his work for stage and screen, from new writing to adaptations of classic playtexts, musical theatre, and original works for television.
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A new genre for television?
The book presents the dramatised history documentaries aired by British public service broadcasters in the 2000s constitute a televisual genre in their own right, offering insights from key BBC and Channel 4 personnel.
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Difficult pasts
Difficult Pastscombines book history, reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities. In doing so, it challenges narratives that separate manuscript and print, Catholi...
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A victor's peace in Iraq
This book offers a detailed analysis of peacebuilding in Iraq following the territorial defeat of ISIS. Focusing on key aspects such as power-sharing, security provision, transitional justice, and reconciliation, it reflects on the role of the state but also of key actors such as tribes and milit...
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Fashioning Italian youth
Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young people’s style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young people’s generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them...
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Shaping nineteenth-century Art History
This volume gathers twenty-eight essays that reassess nineteenth-century art, criticism and historiography, reflecting Elizabeth Prettejohn’s influence and offering a state-of-the-field account grounded in close looking, interdisciplinary analysis and renewed attention to visual and material prac...
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Medieval afterlives
This book shows how early drama traditions were transformed, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval Afterlives offers insight into how sixteenth-century people understood and adapted performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation, and p...
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Ford Madox Brown
This original book explores the thinking behind Brown’s murals in Manchester Town Hall. It argues that Brown was the most innovative artist in Victorian Britain and that he used this public commission to contest the liberal model of British history favoured by the Manchester Corporation.
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Through the fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764–90)
Centralizing the prolific English novelist, Phebe Gibbes, in a lineage of women writers of the revolutionary period, this study traces Gibbes’ evolution from satire to irony through detailed discussion of five novels representing women’s struggle for agency in the context of a shifting British pa...
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Jed Mercurio
This book provides the first critical study of Jed Mercurio’s television work, tracing how his authorial style developed across medical drama, thriller and genre television, and reassessing authorship, populism and power in contemporary British broadcasting.
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Transfiguring medievalism
Transfiguring medievalism explores medieval literature, modern poetry and theologies both medieval and modern to show how bodies can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first appear. Bringing together medieval sources with modern lyric medievalism, the book argues for the surpr...
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Beyond the antislavery haven
This book explores how Canadians and Canadian readers have fashioned their self-image as an antislavery haven, showing a more complicated picture of Canada as a slaveholding, exploitative and racist place.
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Painful pleasures
The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture.
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Film festival programming as precarious labour
An essential book about the lived experience of film festival programming workers, the precarious employment relationships to which they are often subject, and the festival crunch culture that is driving both workers and the film festival circuit to breaking point.
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Head in the game
Head in the game critically analyses the global concussion crisis in sport from sociocultural perspectives. This edited collection features essays from humanities, social science, and scientific scholars who analyse how the concussion crisis came to be and provide guidance for developing ethical ...
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Nursing the English from plague to Peterloo, 1660-1820
This book analyses the reputations and experiences of women and men who nursed the sick before any calls for nursing reform.
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Terrorism and the self
Focussing on the case study of West German leftist armed groups active in the 1970s, this book explores post-terrorist autobiography as literary genre. It makes the case that post-terrorist autobiography must be taken seriously as both cultural phenomenon and crucial source of knowledge.
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Anthony Burgess and America
This book is a critical biography and literary cultural analysis of Burgess’s interactions with the United States of America and American society, using newly discovered documents, archival research and Burgess’s entire canon to investigate the profound influence of America on Burgess’s life and ...
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Ida Lupino
This book delivers a critical study of British-born Ida Lupino as both a constructed star image and an underappreciated filmmaker who worked across independent and mainstream cinema during Hollywood’s classical era.
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Screen borders
A visual cultural history of contemporary borders and border outlooks through a film and television tour of Europe. Screen borders explores what screen representations of European borders, with France as a starting point, reveals about popular and institutional outlooks on European borders.
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The theatrical orchestra
This book analyses experimental performances by British music ensembles in the twenty-first century. It shows how theatrical approaches to presenting orchestral music can facilitate unique and powerful experiences for audiences, enable new interpretation of repertoire, and connect music-making to...
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Health Impact Assessment and policy development
An instrument and approach, Health Impact Assessment, seeks to assess the health impacts of projects, programmes and policies in a systematic way. This book provides for the first time an analysis of how and why HIAs informed local policy development in both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland.
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Militarism in the lifeworlds of children
Bringing together original research by scholars of all career stages and spanning five continents, this edited collection reveals the complexity of childhoods’ myriad intersections with militarism both within and beyond zones of conflict.
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Medieval literary voices
Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices evoke voices lurking beyond the text – the absent authorial voice, the traces of scribal voices and the aural soundscape of the uttered text – and ho...
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Invasions
The first book-length, historical study of invasion-scare and future-war fiction in Britain before and during the First World War in half a century, and the definitive cultural and political history of the genre.
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The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry
The narrative grotesque introduces a new framework for reading medieval texts that rupture conventional poetic boundaries and create unsettling fusions of poetic forms and narratological subjectivities.
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Everyday refusal of racial capitalism
An ethnographic analysis of refugees’ negotiations of labour mediation and racialised infrastructures in Germany, showing how everyday practices of resistance illuminate the operations and contradictions of contemporary racial capitalism and its logistical regimes.
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The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)
This study argues that the political activities of the ECR ought to be recognised as the main voice for conservatism in Strasbourg promoting 'Anglosphere' free market values and the role of NATO in international relations.
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The disruption of the British party system
The traditional two-party system is disrupted: six parties fight each other for votes and three parties fight to control government. This book shows the likelihood that no party will be able to form a government after the 2029 general election.
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Club sociability in colonial America
This monograph is the first book-length study of Early American clubs before the Revolution. It examines the transfer of the British club model to colonial America, analysing the evolving features of club sociability, through a hybridisation process.
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The Birth of Indian Liberalism
The first work of political theory published in modern India, Letters to an Indian Raja (1891) counseled Maharajas to foster liberal values and adopt constitutional government, as this would make Indians freer and happier than they were in British India and thus challenge the moral basis of colon...
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Architecture of Knowledge
A lavishly illustrated 200-year history of the University of Manchester. For the first time, the story is told in an accessible and visually engaging way through maps of the growing campuses and the architectural plans and historic photographs of scores of the University’s most fascinating buildi...
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The regeneration of east Manchester
Explores the role of public sector agencies in the regeneration of east Manchester.
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The political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau is often seen as a prophet of revolution. Now with a new preface and postscript, this classic study shows he was nothing of the sort. Rather, the Genevan-born writer was a conservative populist who sought to use direct democracy to halt the advance of the ideas of the ‘elites’.
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Beginning literary animal studies
The book is an introductory text for students of literary animal studies and for those with a general interest in animals in creative prose, fiction and poetry. Case study examples show how the basic themes of animal studies can be used to reveal meanings in the texts, and to add value to an unde...
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Automated Islamophobia
Automating Islamophobia exposes how AI perpetuates global Islamophobia. It challenges the myth of AI’s objectivity, questioning if change is possible in a system rooted in historical biases. As nations vie for AI dominance, the book calls for critical engagement to resist its role in amplifying i...
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Beginning Irish Studies
An Introduction to the discipline of Irish Studies that will be of use to both students and academics.
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Lives and Literacy in Ancient Egypt
Lives and Literacy accompanies a joint exhibition by the Harry Ransom Center and the John Rylands Library, exploring how manuscripts from Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt reveal the practices, materials, and people that shaped written culture.
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My Voice: Jacques Weisser
Jacques’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. Born in Antwerp in 1942 and hidden across orphanages, hospitals and safe houses, Jacques Weisser later rebuilt his life in Belgium, S...
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My Voice: Rachel Levy
Rachel’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. Born in Czechoslovakia, Rachel Levy was deported to Auschwitz and finally came to Britain as a child refugee, later creating a family ...
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My Voice: John Goldsmith
John’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. Born Hans Goldschmidt in Germany, John escaped to England, before being interned in Britain and Canada, and later becoming a pioneer in ...
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My Voice: Jack Cygelman
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. Raised in Poland and deported through Radom, Auschwitz and Vaihingen, Jack Cygelman arrived in England with 'The Boys', going on to buil...
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My Voice: Susan Pollack
Susan’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. Born in Hungary in 1930, Susan Pollack was deported to Auschwitz as a teenager and after liberation rebuilt her life in Britain, becomi...
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My Voice: Kurt Marx
Kurt’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. Growing up in Cologne under intensifying antisemitism, Kurt Marx survived camps and death marches before he rebuilt his life in the UK a...
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Citizenship after surrogacy
Citizenship after surrogacy examines how ‘heteronormative imaginaries of kinship’ shape the recognition of legal status at birth. Taking international surrogacy as a lens, the book conceptualises the weaponisation of citizenship in the policing of what counts as ‘legitimate’ family life.
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The Parnassus Plays
A new edition of the Elizabethan dramatic trilogy known as the Parnassus plays, originally performed at St John’s College, Cambridge between 1598 and 1602. Provides a modernized text with an extensive critical introduction and commentary.
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Critical histories of the Arts and Crafts movement
From indigo dyeing at William Morris’s factory to contemporary Indigenous textile weaving in Cote d’Ivoire, this book examines the complexities and contradictions of the Arts and Crafts movement, offering new critical analyses of familiar and little-known figures, practices, ideologies, objects a...
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Decolonizing the state
This book is an ethnographic exploration of the Bolivian Movement for Socialism's project of progressive state-building. Based on fieldwork in a Quechua community, it examines the paradoxes of state-led decolonization, offering a vital contribution to debates on indigeneity, radical politics, and...
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Sick jokes
In the modern era, artists, patients and healthcare professionals have turned to humour to visualise medical themes or to reimagine the medicalised body. Through thoughtful and colourful analysis, Sick jokes shows how visual humour can both illuminate and distort the realities of health, ill heal...
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Shakespeare and Manchester
Both a theatrical and a cultural history, it examines the makers of an urban, libertarian, Mancunian Shakespeare using hitherto unexplored primary sources, principally a rich trove of digitised newspapers. It contextualises Manchester’s engagement with Shakespeare’s works in the light of Victoria...
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Enemies of the red flag
A study of British anti-socialism, 1900–40, demonstrating its popular, cross-class and cross-party character through analysis of political campaigns, religious activism and cultural representations within parliamentary, civil society and transnational contexts.
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Lesbian bones
Looking at practices of Polish lesbian artists, this book theorises queer women’s presence in Polish art at intersections with archives, history, literature, and affect across time, and proposes lesbian mutual legibility as method.
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Contesting transitional justice in Peru
Contesting transitional justice in Peru analyses how the international transitional justice paradigm has shaped Peru’s reckoning with the internal armed conflict.
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The British Labour Group in the European Parliament
Exploring the history of the European Parliament and Labour MEPs, this book investigates the building of a second front in the European Parliament. Here, Labour MEPs worked alongside European colleagues to shape core policy areas, influenced the direction of European integration, and attempted to...
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Parliament and politics in revolutionary Britain and Ireland, 1640–60
This is an exciting new collection of historical essays focussed on the institution of Parliament between 1640–60. It has a wide thematic, geographic and temporal scope and offers valuable insights about the future study of the period’s political history.
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Modern French film in the shadow of literature
An examination of the alternately hostile and submissive attitudes from the 1950s of French filmmakers toward the institution of literature. Provides a theoretical analysis of words and images as distinct expressive mediums, discussions of the often-ambiguous representations of literary culture, ...
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Romani women at the edge of neoliberal Europe
Romani women at the edge of neoliberal Europe reveals how EU inclusion policies often reproduce structural violence, limiting Romani women’s opportunities. Drawing on ethnographic research, it explores activism, survival, and resistance, calling for justice-based inclusion grounded in lived reali...
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Femininity and constructing national identity in Spanish postwar cinema, 1939–45
A comparative study of censorship of the portrayals of female wartime heroism in Spanish films of the immediate post-Civil War to the end of WWII in relation to Hollywood cinema of the period, and the creative ways Spanish directors undermined the censors through comedy and melodrama.
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Monasticism and politics in Norman Italy
A vivid, detailed and compelling contemporary account of the history of Montecassino during the age of the Gregorian Reform and of southern Italy under the rule of the Norman conquerors.
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The Arab state after the uprisings
The uprisings revealed novel challenges to statehood and raised theoretical and empirical questions about the Arab state. The authors tackle a wide variety of topics that explore how the uprisings impacted regimes and the structure of rule, economic relationships, social dynamics, and the state's...
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Walking in the Middle Ages
The first book-length study of walking in the Middle Ages, this volume examines philosophy, hagiography, miracle narratives, drama, conduct books, literary texts (including Barbour, Langland, Chaucer, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Kempe), and manuscript illuminations. Essays question periodised claims a...
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Alfred’s empire
A historical study of Prince Alfred’s global royal tour, 1867–71, analysing how royal travel, naval power, and local encounters shaped imperial identity and established a template for later British royal tours.
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Virtue reconsider’d
Reassessing the lives of married English women in the long eighteenth century, this multidisciplinary volume challenges assumptions of wifely domesticity and docility, and reveals how wives navigated law, literature and economy to exercise agency within – and beyond – the confines of marriage.
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Women's writing for Punch magazine, 1868–1918
Women's writing for Punch magazine complicates the image of Punch as a misogynistic, male-authored publication by recovering the history of female Punch writers. Rather than being passive victims of misogyny, these authors were women with agency who made strategic use of humour to fit into Punch ...
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Jenny Diski
This is the first book-length study of Jenny Diski’s work, bringing together her fiction and non-fiction to show how they form an open-ended project of self-representation. Through close readings and archival research, the book establishes Diski as a major contemporary author whose writing is bot...
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Grassroots housing models in Europe
This edited collection focuses on the translocal networks interlinking community-led housing movements and explores their social innovations to support alternative imaginaries of housing in Europe.
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Religious masculinity
Religious masculinity is an innovative study that demonstrates how male piety became a central battleground in the culture wars of the Third Republic. It sheds new light on our understanding of religion, masculinity and politics in a critical period of French history.
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Anatomy of an opposition
This book offers a framework for understanding opposition to Lebanon’s entrenched system of sectarian politics in the country’s postwar era.
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Alan Garner and the work of time
This critical volume explores and reassesses Alan Garner’s significance as a writer, from mythic fantasy to landscape, memory, folklore, and the power of story.
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Andrea Levy's Novels
This groundbreaking study of one of the most significant writers of recent times offers comprehensive analyses of all five of Levy’s novels, and brings to light fascinating discoveries from her personal archive. An authoritative yet accessible account of her work, it argues that Levy is the great...
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Shakespeare and authorial networks in early modern drama
Using social network theory, this book analyses how intertextual exchanges with other playwrights shaped Shakespeare’s plays and influenced his engagement with early modern literary, institutional and patronage networks.
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Radio in British India
Focusing on the mercurial last two decades of British rule, the book critiques colonialism and imperialism through an investigation of broadcasting. Specifically, it details the evolution of official policy and implementation of administrative decisions on spoken word programmes. The book also in...
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The digital rise of the Far Right in Japan
The Digital Rise of the Far Right in Japan is the first volume to offer an in-depth, empirically grounded analysis of the far right in Japan‘s cyberspace.
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