Scandinavian politics today

A high-quality textbook which has earned a strong reputation and is cited by senior academics and undergraduates alike. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to view Nordic politics and policy-making in a wider comparative perspective.

Malherbe, théophile de viau and saint-amant

This volume offers a representative yet concise selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. It also provides supporting documentation to bring out the unique literary personality of each, and to help make their poetry as accessible as possible to a m...

Taking the long view

This study examines three long documentaries from Europe, each tracing the lives of individuals or groups as they mature from childhood to adulthood. It explores the reasons why long documentaries are so popular with television and cinema audiences, as well as addressing some of the issues faced ...

The sociology of unemployment

An analysis of the experience and governance of unemployment

Settlers at the end of empire

Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study highlighting the connections between the racial politics of migration in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Rhodesia in the second half of the twentiet...

Renaissance humanism and ethnicity before race

Examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism

Chartism

No British social movement captured contemporary imaginations as Chartism did. This unique book is the only history to offer complete, in-depth coverage of the full chronological spread of its activities (1838-58), based throughout on detailed research.

Producing globalisation

Producing globalisation attempts to scrutinise the nature of the interplay between globalisation and national institutional settings. Rather than taking globalisation as a given, this book explores how concrete political actors produced the phenomenon of globalisation.

The values of international organizations

This book’s statistical and legal analyses of international organizations’ constitutions reveal new interpretations of international organizations law. It provides a map of international organizations’ values, and a healthy start towards fully understanding that map, thereby helping global govern...

Egypt of the saite pharaohs, 664–525 bc

The Saite Dynasty (664–525 BC) represents a dynamic but lesser-known era in the history of ancient Egypt. In less than a decade Psamtek I reunified the country after almost 400 years of fragmentation. The Saite rulers promoted trade and embarked on important reforms, allowing Egypt to regain a ma...

Empire and nation-building in the caribbean

This original and exciting book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies.

The age of internationalism and belgium, 1880–1930

Investigates internationalism using Belgium as its focal point; historically a major hub for transnational movements

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester’s poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. It argues that there is a thematic unity--the pursuit of pleasure--underlying his work, that this pursuit is religiously motivated and reflects Rochester’s preoccu...

Dido, queen of carthage

The first single-text scholarly edition in English. An indispensable resource for scholars, students, and theatre practitioners. Edited by Ruth Lunney.

Liszt's 'chopin'

Meirion Hughes combines a new translation of the first edition with an introduction that places the work in its cultural and political context

Explaining local government

Explaining local government uniquely presents a history of local government in Britain since 1800 until the present day. The study explains how the institution evolved from a structure that appeared to be relatively free from central government interference to one of the most centralised systems ...

The art of darkness

This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. Across more than 500 pages, John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, drawing on his own experience and interviews with a host of bands, from Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure to Throbbing Gristle.

Art + archive

Art + Archive examines how and why the archive became a hot topic in the artworld at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book connects the artworld’s interest in archival terminology to a number of broader historical, technological, academic and philosophical contexts.

Paris and the commune 1871–78

Colette Wilson writes clearly and authoritatively and her original, scholarly and beautifully illustrated book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of the Paris Commune, its aftermath in the early years of the Third Republic and French cultural memory overall

Introducing bakhtin

There is no other comprehensive introduction to Bakhtin. The book is aimed at arts students - the primary market. Deals extensively with gender issues.

Capitalism in contemporary iran

The book situates Iran within the motions and tendencies of global capitalism and resulting geopolitics to analyse the process of Iranian neoliberalisation and its impacts on the reconfiguration of the ruling class; reshaping of the subaltern classes and their struggles; reorganisation of the for...

Three seventeenth-century plays on women and performance

A groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The plays are John Fletcher's 'The Wild-Goose Chase', James Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'.

Three romances of eastern conquest

This volume brings together three late sixteenth-century popular stage romances of travel and conquest in the Muslim East. The plays are introduced, contextualised and edited for the first time in a modern-spelling edition.

Law in popular belief

This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in contrast to the legal profession. It explores how myths are created about the law and how myths are created by the...

New challenges for documentary

'New challenges for documentary' provides a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and a fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practive. This second edition brings together many new contributions both from academics and film-makers.

Exposed

Being exposed to large audiences as a villain is a life-changing experience. You may survive, but you will always bear the scars. This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. It also contributes new perspectives on the fusion between news storytelling a...

The british tradition of minority government

This book gives a fresh perspective on minority governance using declassified files which challenge some of the myths surrounding the minority administrations in the 1970s, and reveals a British tradition of minority government which goes beyond that of other countries.

Sydney box

A lucid and informative account, drawing on unpublished material, of the career of Sydney Box, one of the most successful producers in British cinema. It provides discussion of all his films, including The Seventh Veil (1945), and affords an exceptional insight into the workings of the wartime a...

Photography and social movements

The first thorough study of photography’s interrelationship with social movements

Art, politics and dissent

Art, politics and dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art.. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events, normally marginalised or overlooked, in the h...

Peasants and historians

This book examines one hundred years of historical debate on the English peasantry in the later Middle Ages, exploring the influences and changes to peasantry society, economy and culture.

Transporting chaucer

Argues for new relationships between Chaucer’s poetry and works by others

Violence and the state

A highly original, multi-contributed interdisciplinary investigation into organised violence across a wide range of geographical and academic areas, which argues that violence cannot be completely divorced from ‘traditional’ political objectives.

The structure of modern cultural theory

An interesting companion for students of cultural theory, concentrating on the four most influential thinkers - Adorno, Bourdieu, Foucault and Jameson

Immigration and schooling in the republic of ireland

Immigration and schooling in Ireland addresses the impact of recent rapid social and economic change on the education system. It provides thought provoking analysis and fascinating insights into the complex and varied responses of principals, teachers, parents and children to working in newly-mul...

The rise and fall of world orders

Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers. The first half of the book compares the Span...

Britain and its internal others, 1750–1800

This book revisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses. Each case adjudicated the presence of outsiders in London – from Jews and Gypsies to Africans and Catholics.

Healing with water

A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries

From republic to restoration

Explores the diffuse impact of the civil wars and the Republic on the Restoration

Drama of the english republic, 1649–1660

Public schools and private education

An analysis of the Clarendon Commission (1861-64) and the Public School Acts showing their profound importance to the future and development of education in England.

The correspondence of john dryden

This definitive edition of the correspondence of John Dryden takes a new approach to introducing and contextualising letters, creating a coherent narrative where few have found one. It is a sustained engagement with one of the great writers in English literary history.

The tragedy of antigone, the theban princesse

This photographic facsimile edition is the first time May's Antigone has appeared in print since 1631.

Catholics and the ‘protestant nation’

This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading ‘Catholic historians’ and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography

Model and supermodel

Examines the persistent mythology concerning the artist’s model in British art and culture and some of the issues and ambiguities involved in representing the naked human body in a work of art.

Heresy and inquisition in france, 1200–1300

Exposes the inner workings of inquisitions in medieval France through expert translations of primary sources.

Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship

A person who is not recognised as a citizen anywhere is typically referred to as ‘stateless’. Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship redirects focus away from legal analyses of statelessness to uncover a more fundamental ‘problem of citizenship’, and interrogates how citizenshi...

Banished potentates

An examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s.

Fontamara

Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a controversial figure throughout his life. ...

Exhibiting the empire

Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirical prints, exploration, battles and even nascent nationalism.

Think tank traditions

As think tank numbers explode, they have become an integral part of political life. Political leaders, corporations and non-governmental organisations draw upon their expert advice to advance their causes in the battle of ideas.

The synthetic proposition

Traces two intersecting trajectories in American art. It shows how rights-based 1960s politics and the identity politics of the 1970s influenced the development of Conceptual art (with a capital 'C') into the diverse set of practices generally characterised as conceptualist (with a lower-case 'c').

Globalisation and ideology in britain

Examines the impact of globalisaton across the ideological landscape of British politics by profiling the discourse on globalisation of several political groups involved in making and contestign British foreign economic policy.

The english revolution c. 1590–1720

This book is about the crisis of transition marked by the English Revolution (1640-1660), while at the same time placing it in the context of a long seventeenth century - running from about 1590 to 1720.Leading experts explore this theme, with special reference to developments in politics, religi...

Nietzsche and irish modernism

Nietzsche and Irish Modernism deftly traces the circulation of the German philosopher’s ideas in Irish culture during the early years of the twentieth century. In doing so, the book demonstrates how Nietzsche’s thought inspired new, disruptive modes of writing, which spoke to local historical cir...

A textual introduction to social and political theory

This book offers a stimulating new approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them.

Developing africa

Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule

The radicalism of ethnomethodology

This book offers a well-informed and timely appraisal of the rationale for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. It examines some of the influences that have shaped work of this kind, and its relationship to mainstream social science.

Videogame, player, text

Videogame, player, text examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames.

Irish adventures in nation-building

Irish Adventures in Nation-building consists of eighteen mostly-chronological essays examining the debates and processes that have shaped the modernisation of Ireland since the beginning of the twentieth century. The vantage points examined include those of prominent revolutionaries, cultural nat...

Francophone film

Introduces the reader to the rich film production of the French-speaking countries outside France, commonly called Francophonia, comprised of Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, the Caribbean, the Maghreb and many sub-Saharan countries. Brings together films that might otherwise be divided by questions...

China’s peaceful rise

Adopting a constructivist approach, this book argues that China's prospects for achieving 'great power' status peacefully depend more on perceptions of the country's development than on concrete measures of power or economic benefits. Incorporating historical perceptions, survey data and general ...

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...

Worth saving

The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War.

E. p. thompson and english radicalism

E. P. Thompson and English radicalism celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of The Making of the English Working Class, one of the most influential history books of the last fifty years, and demonstrates the present day relevance of Thomnpson’s historical, political and polemical writing and peace ...

The 1630s

An exciting collection of essays on the ‘personal rule’ of Charles I, whose inept and dangerous rule many historians feel put the country on the road to civil war

Conspiracy theory and american foreign policy

This study examines the relationship between secrecy, power and interpretation around international political controversy, where foreign policy orthodoxy comes up hard against alternative interpretations. It does so in the context of American foreign policy during the War on Terror, a conflict th...

Telling tales

Broad ranging, interdisciplinary, this book seeks to understand the corporate conceptions of identity and work, and how they are reflected in our wider culture - through novels, cookery writing, autobiography and the many constructions of narrative.

Burning the veil

During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, to subvert the nationalist movement while inflicting widespread violence. This contradictory, catastrophic policy, as in contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq, revealed the failure of imposed Westernisation and tri...

Ethnography for a data-saturated world

This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world.

The european union after brexit

This volume addresses the transformation of the EU during and after the process of Brexit. Covering topics such as trade, the internal market, freedom of movement, security, and social Europe, this book suggests that Brexit reorders the priorities, internal balance(s) of power, and legislation of...

The rise and fall of the scottish cotton industry, 1778–1914

This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War.

Public information films

The book explores the full catalogue of the films produced by the Empire Marketing Board, General Post Office and Crown Film Units between 1930 and 1952. It identifies themes which both reflect the sponsors’ demands and the anxieties of the time as well as providing the foundations for the post-w...

Essays in later medieval french literature

This book honours Jane H. M. Taylor’s important contribution to later medieval French literature and, in its ten original essays, acknowledges the debt the area owes to her scholarship.

History matters

Written for everyone interested in women’s and gender history, History matters reaffirms the importance of viewing history from a distance and with feminist intent. Judith Bennett argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on rich, plausible, and well-informed history that is al...

Women, credit, and debt in early modern scotland

Uses court records to re-evaluate women’s economic roles in early modern Scotland.

Household knowledges in late-medieval england and france

This book examines how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of information. Considering the reciprocal relationship between the domestic experience and its cultural expression, contributors provide a fresh illustration of the imaginative scope of the late-medieval ...

Francis bacon's new atlantis

This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives on Bacon’s ‘The New Atlantis'.

Reading walter benjamin

A new reading of Walter Benjamin that places his work in historical context and explores the theoretical links with German and Jewish philosophy and theology. The book also provides unique readings of Benjamin and the British artist Rachel Whiteread and British experimental author B.S. Johnson.

The devil is an ass

This edition of "The Devil is an Ass" (1616) aims to provide an insight into Jonson's life and work, the theatrical qualities of the play, its political background and its textual history. In his introduction, Peter Happe looks at the special place of the play in Jonson's own life, his interest i...

The political interests of gender revisited

The book makes a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms and forms a trend-setting text in the area of gender studies.

Gender, nation and conquest in the high middle ages

An account of noblewomen in Wales in the high Middle Ages, focusing on Nest of Deheubarth

My voice: anne super

Anne'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. Anne Super was born in Warsaw and experienced a traumatic separation from her parents. She was later adopted by an uncle in South Africa...

Theorising media

Issues of power, form and subjectivity are at the centre of all attempts to understand the media better. This book highlights both what we know and what we need to know, using regular examples to make its points.

Rules and ethics

This book provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on the importance of detailed rules to many of the world’s ethical traditions. A valuable theoretical introduction sets the agenda for a series of comparative studies, spanning pre-modern Hindu ethics, Classical Rome and Christian casuistry,...

Sovereign states or political communities?

This book draws on the ideas of a wide range of political thinkers, including Kant, Hegel, Marx, Weber and Arendt, to explore the ideas, meaning and history of civil society.

Democratic participation and civil society in the european union

This book addresses the topical discussion of how democracy can be achieved beyond the nation-state and challenges the widespread optimism about the democratic potential of civil society participation in European governance.

The white devil

In this study of sexual and political intrigue, a fascinating but dangerous woman consents to the murder of her ineffectual husband. Her defence against the charge of adultery transforms the lurid tale of crime into high tragedy.A compellingly dangerous and fascinating play with a comprehensive s...

Confronting crisis in the carolingian empire

This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus’ ‘Epitaph for Arsenius’ is both a personal and a political text, written with twenty years of hindsight, by...

Frontiers of the caribbean

This bold inter-disciplinary study analyses the history, retention and development of frontier processes in the Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.