-
A most diabolical deed'
This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900. It is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Revolutionary britannia?
Europe was swept by revolution in the period from 1789 to 1848. Britain, alone of the major western powers, seemed exempt from this revolutionary fervour. The governing class attributed this exemption to divine providence and the soundness of the British Constitution. This view has been upheld ...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price per -
Empire and subject peoples
The book outlines the sociological arguments and political activities of the US pragmatist sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller, part of the milieu of Chicago sociology and involved in its studies of race and immigration.
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price per -
Love's sacrifice
A. T. Moore's thorough commentary on "Love's Sacrifice" is designed to be of use to all kinds of readers, from students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field. The notes provide full explanations of obscure words and phrases, and offer analyzes of many aspects of staging and interpreta...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price per -
Human remains and mass violence
Multidisciplinary in scope, this volume will appeal to readers interested in an understanding of mass violence's aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, law, politics and modern warfare.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
The uncanny
This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price per -
Silk and empire
Pulling together many subject areas into one, this study of the Anglo/ Indian silk trade shows the complexity of the Empire by linking usually disparate histories
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Every man in his humour
The 1601 quarto version of Johnson's play, set in Florence
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price per -
Sab
This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Spanish text along with a substantial and authoritative introduction in English, as well as maps and tables relating to nineteenth-century Cuba, a vocabulary list, and suggestions for further reading.
Regular price £10.99Sale price £10.99 Regular price £10.99Unit price per -
The story of alderley
Alderley Edge is a sandstone ridge rising 180 metres above the Cheshire plain. Beneath lie copper and lead mines and, according to legend, a sleeping king and his knights ready to save England in the last battle of the world. This book covers everything from the natural world to the story of the ...
Read MoreRegular price £120.00Sale price £120.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Knowledge, mediation and empire
Studies Tod’s relationships with particular Rajput leaders and with the Rajputs as a group in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and social customs to British and European readers.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Death machines
Death Machines offers a critical reconsideration of ethical theories and political justifications for technologised practices of violence in contemporary conflicts.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
When hollywood loved britain
Examines American films that were set in Britain, based on British literature or history and included the work of British producers, directors, writers, stars and character actors
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Political concepts
Offers a sophisticated analysis of central political concepts in the light of recent debates in political theory. Introduces students to some of the main interpretations of key political conceps highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Tackles the principle concepts employed to justify any po...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price per -
The second battlefield
Explores written representations of First World War experience, produced by a variety of different women. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, in the form of diaries and letters, the book examines the way in which the variety of new roles undertaken by women triggered a search, conscious ...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price per -
Spenser's ethics
A novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, Spenser’s ethics situaties his ethics in the contexts of early modern moral philosophy and the English colonization of Ireland.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
The return of the housewife
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2025An illuminating look at the world of cleanfluencers that asks why the burden of housework still falls on women. Housework is good for you. Housework sparks joy. Housework is beautiful. Housework is glamorous. Housework is key to a happy family. Housework sh...
Read MoreRegular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price per -
Writing disenchantment
Analyses the phenomenon of literary disenchantment after the First World War
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
American foreign policy
This book brings together international relations scholars, political theorists and historians to reflect on the intellectual history of American foreign policy since the late nineteenth century.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
The island book of records volume i
The Island Book of Records brings the early years of this iconic record label to life.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Novelty fair
Engages with nineteenth-century visual culture in an unusually broad way, juxtaposing photography, fashion, broadside ballads, popular prints and caricature in order to re-examine Victorian society between Chartism and the Great Exhibition.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Shinners, dissos and dissenters: irish republican media activism since the good friday agreement
This book provides a compelling picture of Irish republican activist media outlets like newspapers, magazines and Internet journals and the role that they played ideologically during the tumultuous years that followed the end of the 30-year civil war that was the Troubles and signing of the Good ...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Subsidies, diplomacy, and state formation in europe, 1494–1789
This book examines subsidies – payments made between sovereigns in return for political and military service – in the early modern period. It explores how such payments shaped diplomacy, princes’ honour, the construction of states and early modern society.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Irish women's writing, 1878–1922
Providing an important intervention in contemporary Irish cultural-critical debate, this collection explores how Irish women writers exercised their political concerns and influence through their literary outputs during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
Sejanus, his fall
This edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy is more intensively researched than any that has previously appeared. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 1616 versions and takes the earlier version as "copy-text." The introduction offers a radically new assessment of Jonson's ...
Read MoreRegular price £12.99Sale price £12.99 Regular price £12.99Unit price per -
Writing the war on terrorism
This book examines the language of the war on terrorism. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how the Bush administration's approach to counter-terrorism became the dominant policy paradigm in American politics today.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Russian-american relations in the post-cold war world
This book offers a step-by-step analysis of key stages in the development of the Russian-American relationship since the late Cold War. Through its lenses one can perceive the roots of the Crimean crisis of 2014 as well as the path to a more promising future for the two global powers as well as ...
Read MoreRegular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Unearthing childhood
Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images painted on rocks and pots, in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts to learn practical crafts. Readers in archeology and those with interests in childhood will gain new perspectives from this survey of the d...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Disrupting white mindfulness
Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives and norms that shape the Mindfulness Industry. Mindfulness is now common throughout the West, but this book reveals how the industry is infused with whiteness and late capitalism.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Vaccinating britain
Vaccinating Britain explores the complicated relationship between the British public and vaccination since the Second World War through British public health policy. It shows how the British public came to embrace vaccination but also made demands on the government to make vaccination more accept...
Read MoreRegular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
The british new wave
This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. Taylor presenting a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Labour united and divided from the 1830s to the present
This book seeks to renew and expand the field of British labour studies, setting out new avenues for research so as to widen the audience and academic interest in the field, in a context which makes the revisiting of past struggles and dilemmas more pressing than ever.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
England and the 1966 world cup
England and the 1966 World Cup presents a cultural analysis of what is considered a key 'moment of modernity' in the nation's post-war history. Regarded as having an importance beyond its primary sporting purpose, the World Cup in England is examined within the complexity of the cultural,...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
The 'desegregation' of english schools
This detailed study is the first ever book on English bussing, an integrationist policy introduced in places like Southall and Bradford in the 1960s. It reveals the failure of dispersal, which segregated rather than integrated, leaving Asian children vulnerable to racial bullying.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
She-wolf
She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Lynda la plante
The first account of the television drama of Lynda La Plante, Britain's most successful and well known screenwriter, whose work is central to understanding changes that shook the UK television industry in the late twentieth century
Regular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £30.00Unit price per -
Indo-pacific empire
This book explains why the idea of the Indo-Pacific is so strategically important and concludes with a strategy designed to help the West engage with Chinese power in the region in such a way as to avoid conflict.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Anthony burgess and modernity
A valuable collection of essays that look at Anthony Burgess's relationship with Modernism and postmodernity
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts
Based on unprecedented interviews with key figures, this book reveals how the Treasury has been the major institution driving socio-economic disparities in the UK, as well as the Brexit paralysis
Regular price £10.99Sale price £10.99 Regular price £10.99Unit price per -
Queer exceptions
A major study of solo performance in the UK and Europe that examines the significance of exceptional lives in neoliberal times. With case studies drawn from theatre, comedy and live art, it combines insights from gender studies, politics and sociology to present a new queer account of subjectivit...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Westminster 1640–60
Explores the history of the royal city during the civil war and interregnum
Regular price £35.00Sale price £35.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
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...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Reckless opportunists
Aeron Davis looks at the growing crisis of leadership in Britain today. He argues that increasingly self-interested elites are not only damaging society they are destroying the basis of Establishment rule itself. The book, based on over 350 elite interviews, asks: how did we end up producing the ...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Dick of devonshire
The first ever critical edition of Thomas Heywood’s 1626 play, Dick of Devonshire, presented for the first time with an anthology of its source material.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
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...
Read MoreRegular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price per -
Otherwise
A crucial resource for specialists and students seeking to enrich their understanding of the relationship between gender politics and visual culture.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price per -
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.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Reading adaptations
Reading Adaptations provides an original introduction to the widespread and extremely popular practice of stage adaptation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
There is no soundtrack
There is no soundtrack amplifies new and radical audio-visual relationships in experimental media art. It addresses the lack of diversity in the study of art, media and sound through careful audition of marginalised voices that speak of race, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, colonialism, nationali...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
The duchess of malfi
An authoritative edition of one of the most popular plays in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price per -
Cinema - italy
A journey to the Italian cinema in the company of its major film makers and theorists. Rossellini, Visconti, Pasolini and Zavattini are given a new focus that overturns the usual views and perspectives. It offers new and exciting interpretations.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Dissolute characters
Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Participatory reading in late-medieval england
This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences’ agency, literary culture and media formats. Interactive reading offered writers ways to make readers work to their benefit, even as these practices e...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Missionaries and modernity
This book examines the changing landscape of evangelical British missionary education in the British Empire of the nineteenth century. It argues that over the course of the nineteenth century many aspects of mission schools were secularised, leading missionary societies to question the ambivalen...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Made in france
This book explores the forces that structure life in France from the cradle to the grave. These rules, norms and power relations are the result of work conducted by a wide range of politicians, administrators, business people and activists. Some have changed recently, but most have resisted the c...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Jacopo da varagine's chronicle of the city of genoa
This is the first English translation of Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa. It broadens the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life, providing an engaging introduction to medieval Genoa, civic culture, Dominican composition and the ‘historical Jacopo’.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Sally wainwright
This book-length study of Sally Wainwright’s television, including analysis of globally recognised television series such as Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, and Gentleman Jack, considers Wainwright’s work in terms of genre, melodrama and through the concept of emotion.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Pink-pilled
This daring book explores how and why women are radicalised into far-right movements online and offers advice for fighting back against this alarming trend.
Regular price £12.99Sale price £12.99 Regular price £12.99Unit price per -
Digital contention in a divided society
Representing the first in-depth qualitative study of how social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are used to mediate contentious public parades and protests in Northern Ireland, this book explores the implications of mis-and dis-information spread via online platforms for peacebuildin...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
British films of the 1970s
British Films of the 1970s offers highly detailed and insightful critical analysis of a range of individual films of the period. This analysis draws upon an innovative range of critical methodologies which place the film texts within a rich variety of historical contexts.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Welcome to the club
Hacienda resident and Manchester legend DJ Paulette celebrates the highs, lows and lessons of a 30-year career at the forefront of UK dance music as a ground-breaking Black female DJ.
Regular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price per -
Model experts
Model Experts is the first book-length history in English of a celebrated collection of anatomical wax models which continues to fascinate audiences and shape our image of the body to the present day. It reveals the human relationships, controversies, and political projects which surrounded the a...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Unstable universalities
Contends that today, more than ever, we need some form of political universality, some way of thinking about and realising a collective politics.
Regular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
David simon's american city
David Simon’s American city examines the work of showrunner David Simon, creator of acclaimed television serials The Wire, Treme and The Deuce. Situating these television serials in their real world context of twenty-first-century America, the book explores how Simon’s work responds to dominant d...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Beautyscapes
Beautyscapes is the first book to focus specifically on cosmetic surgery tourism. It draws on key themes of interest to students and researchers interested in globalisation and mobility, such as gender and class, neoliberalism, social media, conviviality and care, to explain the nature and growin...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Constructing kingship
This book examines the relationship between the Capetian monarchs of France and the Crusades, and considers the challenge to political authority that confronted them following their failure to join the early crusades, and their less-than-impressive involvement in later ones.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Representation, recognition and respect in world politics
This book addresses a critical issue in global politics: how recognition and misrecognition fuel conflict or initiate reconciliation. Using a detailed empirical investigation of the fraught bilateral relations between the US and Iran, the book demonstrates how representations of one state by anot...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Sanctuary cities and urban struggles
This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars to explore how urban social movements, localised practices of rights claiming, and diverse articulations of sanctuary are reshaping the governance of migration.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Turning revolt into style
A detailed study of the creative ambitions, social and technological constraints behind the evolution of punk and post-punk graphic styles.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Degeneration, decadence and disease in the russian fin de siècle
Explores the implications of scientific discourse on Russian concepts of mental illness and national health
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Transitional justice in process
Transitional justice in process is the first book that comprehensively studies the Tunisian transitional justice process, covering its initiation, design, and performance. The book makes an essential contribution to literature on the domestic and international politics of transitional justice.
Regular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price per -
Mancunians
Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? is the authentic account of Manchester at the turn of the Millennium, told through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known local figures from music and sports.
Regular price £16.99Sale price £16.99 Regular price £16.99Unit price per -
Collective emotions and political violence
Analysing primary textual, audio and video data, this book argues that Islamist organisations in Germany and the UK perform collective emotions in and through narrative when turning to political violence. The book offers a provocative account departing from conventional interpretations of radical...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Decolonisation in the age of globalisation
Drawing extensively on the declassified British archives and Chinese sources, this book explores how Britain and China negotiated for Hong Kong’s future, and how Anglo-Chinese relations flourished after 1984. This original study argues that Thatcher was a pragmatic neoliberal, and the British dip...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Crowns and colonies
Explores the multiple connections between European monarchs and their overseas colonies
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Saramago's labyrinths
Saramago’s labyrinths focuses on both the form and the content of Saramago’s writing, paying particular attention to Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness) and Todos os Nomes (All the Names).
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Nature and culture
Nature and Culture asks how objects were collected and displayed in the twentieth century. It explores natural and cultural objects in the Manchester Museum, a major university collection. How did these specimens come to be there? What happened to them in the collection, and who used them?
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Empire religiosity
WINNER of the Triennial Distinguished Book Award, 2022-25, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Notre Dame University, South Bend, USAThis book explores Roman Catholic female missionaries and their placement in colonial and postcolonial India. It offers fascinating insights into t...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
British culture and the end of empire
This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound ...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Realist film theory and cinema
This book suggests ways forward for a new series of studies in cinematic realism, and for a new form of film theory based on realism, stressing the importance of the question of realism, both in film studies and in contemporary life.
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price per -
African security in the twenty-first century
Through the lens of human security their book examines the continent’s most pressing security challenges—from identity conflict and failing states to terrorism, disease, and environmental degradation—and in doing so provides a comprehensive look at the complexities of building peace and stability...
Read MoreRegular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £30.00Unit price per -
Reading the graphic surface
Critically engages with the visual appearance of prose fiction where it is manipulated by authors, from alterations in typography to the deconstruction of the physical form of the book
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
John dewey
Arguing that John Dewey should be read not as a 'local' American thinker but as a philosopher of globalisation, this book shows how he sets out an evolutionary form of global and national democracy, one that has not been fully appreciated even by contemporary scholars of pragmatism.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
The politics of identity and civil society in britain and germany
This study compares the making and remaking of the political identities of the miners' movements in Britain and Germany. Taking the South Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies, it focuses on the discourse of the trade unions and political parties in the two regions to reveal how they construc...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price per -
Foundational economy
This book shows how the foundational economy – public services, infrastructure, education and health care – was built up between 1880 and 1980 so that they were collectively paid for, collectively delivered and collectively consumed. This system of provision has been undermined in the age of priv...
Read MoreRegular price £14.99Sale price £14.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price per
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
