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Assemblages of cancer
A qualitative, social science study using multi-sited ethnography and qualitative interviews with patients and medical professionals that analyses breast cancer experiences and how they are shaped by the interaction with biomedical, institutional and cultural contexts in the UK, France and Italy.
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Forensic cultures in modern europe
This book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices. It shows how the performance of forensic scientists has been shaped by political regimes, law and ideology, leading to different forensic cultures.
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Posters, protests, and prescriptions
The National Health Service determines how Britons receive healthcare. It is a source of national pride, a workplace and a symbol. This book explores how the cultural meanings of the NHS developed and changed since its foundation in 1948, shaped by activism, labour, consumerism, space and represe...
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Histories of hiv/aids in western europe
This edited collection showcases exciting new work on lesser-known histories of HIV/AIDS, from the earliest days of the crisis to the present day. Focusing on regions of western Europe, it offers new perspectives on the development and implementation of policy, the nature of activism and expertis...
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Medical histories of belgium
Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars and engage with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Publics and their health
Why are some groups and individuals seen as problems for public health? How does this change over time and place? Through a series of case-studies, this collection explores the making of ‘problem publics’ and their relationship with public health authorities.
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Peace and the politics of memory
The book explores how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It finds that three elements of memory politics – inclusivity, pluralism, and dignity – play a key role for a just peace.
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Motherhood confined
The book is the first extensive historical examination of motherhood in English prisons. It addresses the challenges mothers and babies have historically posed to prison systems not designed with their containment and the management of their health in mind.
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Vulnerability
This volume explores how the language of ‘vulnerability’ transforms social policy and national security programmes, through case studies drawn from Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East.
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Cold, hard steel
Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work.
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Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long second world war, 1931-1953
This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and medical care during the long Second World War, tracing circulations of humanitarian actors, discourses, knowledge, and practices across the world from the war in China in 1931 to the Korean War in 1953.
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The florentine florin
Locatelli revises our understanding of the leading currency of the Middle Ages, the florin, by investigating it as a medium with hitherto neglected political, social, and cultural dimensions in the interactions between the Florentine merchants, the Angevin Crown, and the Papacy.
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Feeling blue
This book is the first historical study of colour in modern British hospitals, examining the use of colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain.
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‘everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950
The volume explores the shaping of ‘everyday health’ in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing.
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Living the urban periphery
An empirically rich analysis of the drivers and lived experiences of urban change in African peripheries with a focus on city-regions in Ethiopia, South Africa and Ghana. The book proposes five peripheral logics which frame the formation and character of urban peripheries and explores these on th...
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Us grand strategy and the madman theory
What happens when a president convinces the world he might just do the unthinkable? In US grand strategy and the madman theory, James D. Boys argues that projecting calculated irrationality can terrify adversaries into submission, but at enormous risk. From Nixon’s secret Cold War gambit to Trump...
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Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation, and prevent
This book offers urgent exploration of how ‘ordinary’ citizens understand and make sense of radicalisation and counter-radicalisation policy.
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Visions for europe
This book offers a fresh look at some of the most challenging dilemmas of European integration and proposes innovative solutions to them by building on perspectives and insights from twelve classical authors in the history of political thought.
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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.
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Anglogerman manchester
A series of linked essays on particular Germans living in Manchester from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The themes of refuge (from the 1848 Revolutions in Europe, and later from Nazi Germany) and reparation run through the book.
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Resisting olympic evictions
Resisting Olympic evictions explores how one favela mobilised urban space to contest the logic underpinning removals in the glare of the mega-event’s spotlight. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, it provides instructive lessons on building democratic and just cities across th...
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Living with lodgers
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else’s home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have received little scholarly attention. Drawing on hundreds of coroners’ inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses many do...
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Bartered bridegrooms
This book explores the experiences of Muslim men born and raised in Pakistan and Kashmir who migrate after marrying British Pakistani nationals. The book particular focuses on the impact of migration and marriage on their masculinity.
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Zadie smith
A collection of essays on Zadie Smith’s oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith’s works from different angles and contains chapters on her novels, short stories, her play, and essay collections.
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Home front heroism
Home front heroism explores how civilians were framed as heroic during the Second World War. Through a focus on London, this book explores how the effects and demands of conflict created increased opportunities for heroics, and created a need for heroism to be acknowledged, awarded and celebrated.
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Citizens gone
The book examines how countries at the periphery of Europe deal with the challenge of large-scale emigration. They adapt politically and socially and thus re-define the relations between citizens and state. Emigration is a key variable to understand contemporary societal and political change in E...
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Flappers and the jazz age
This book offers fascinating new insights into women’s leisure in 1920s-30s Ireland and Northern Ireland. Using a feminist, intersectional lens, it challenges stereotypes of these women's lives as insular and passive, instead presenting more complex images of agentic, pleasure-seeking subjects wh...
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The melody and rhythm of speech
An indispensable book presenting for the first time in English an unparalleled overview of the phonetics and phonology of speech melody and rhythm by one of the foremost prosody experts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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The racial politics of police warfare
The racial politics of police warfare shatters prevailing myths about British police as an impartial public service. Taking contemporary anti-gang and counter-terrorism policies and practices as its point of departure, the book examines how modern policing is ultimately fashioned by a complex rel...
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Beyond nationalism
This book discusses the meaning of the common good in a European Union thorned by nationalism and presents concrete policies to improve its achievement. It analyses the normative relevance of EU values as a shared moral standpoint between the member states and discusses institutional reforms that...
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Instruments of international order
This book explores the transformation of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century as internationalist schemes for doing world politics came to be practices and principles shared by diplomatic actors across the globe – instruments of international order.
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Ageing and new intimacies
This book examines the romantic and intimate lives of the baby boom generation, often portrayed as pioneers of new ways of relating and family-making. As this cohort enters mid and later life, it is frequently claimed they are redefining ageing itself. Drawing on sensory ethnography in salsa clas...
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The promise of violence
The promise of violence inspires revolutionaries in Iran to see themselves as the hegemony and inflict violence against their compatriots when the Islamic Republic calls for it. The book is a political anthropology of the Islamic Republic of Iran utilising the ‘collective’ memory of Iran-Iraq War...
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Undermining resistance
Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? This book provides a new critical political economy of extractive accumulation to explain how participation crises and governance are r...
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False profits of ethical capital
This book is a timely study of an important political economic phenomenon: ESG investing and stakeholder capitalism. This book encourages new ways of thinking about corporate responsibility and how to contest it.
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Massacres in early modern drama
Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about senseless violence, illuminates archaic forms of ...
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The elementary structuring of patriarchy
Through life histories of Indigenous women, the volume bridges classical anthropological studies on kinship and contemporary research on the gender inequalities in transnational and transborder migrant families. This ethnographically-informed exercise establishes a critical feminist contribution ...
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Modernity and philosophy in max horkheimer
This book shows that Max Horkheimer’s program of critical theory and his research are rooted in the cogency of philosophical questions and an in-depth knowledge of the historical development of philosophical problems in their close correlation with the socio-economic framework which shaped the ‘b...
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Border enclaves
An ethnographic study of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, revealing how borders, sovereignty and belonging are negotiated through everyday life, illicit economies and symbolic performances at Europe’s margins.
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Russo-soviet imperialist hauntings
Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings conceptualizes neo-Gothic texts from the former Eastern Bloc countries and Soviet republics in postcolonial terms. It maps virtually untouched aspects of cultural decolonization, focusing on the uncanny return of repressed and unsettling “hauntings” of unresolve...
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The political ecology of colonial capitalism
The political ecology of colonial capitalism reveals how the co-production of race and nature is a fundamental dynamic of the capitalist world-system.
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The neoliberal monarch
In this well-researched and thought-provoking book on the world’s longest reigning monarch today, Sweden’s Carl XVI Gustaf, sociologist Mikael Holmqvist examines how monarchies and royals exercise corporate power, and how they contribute to consecrating and legitimizing neoliberalism.
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Arctic state identity
This book explores what it means for state personnel from Norway, Iceland, and Canada that their country holds a formal title as an ‘Arctic state’. It asks what an Arctic state identity might look like through geographies, pasts, futures, and geopolitical relations across different scales, from t...
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Rethinking untouchability
This book explores the political thought of B.R. Ambedkar, one of the most important thinkers of modern India. Ambedkar’s ideas transformed untouchability, often considered a millenary religious issue, into a political problem by linking it to larger ideas in the twentieth century such as liberty...
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Plagues of the heart
Using a micro-historical approach, this book explores how the 'culture of covenanting' shaped lived experiences and communities in seventeenth-century Scotland and offers a more complete understanding of protestant identity in the early modern Atlantic world.
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Hariulf’s history of st riquier
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England.
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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...
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Power plants
Power Plants exposes the underappreciated stakes of an expanding global bioenergy sector. As the pursuit of net zero climate targets comes to rely heavily on the industrial burning of crops and trees, this book argues that a closer attention to plants could yet foster energy futures concerned not...
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Critical theory and the political
The book explores whether critical theory constitutes a political argument for modernity as well as an argument for politics within modernity.Each contributor presents a focal point of research and demonstrates the link between critical theory and a variety of political and social phenomena, whic...
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Confessions of monuments
This book examines the role of artefacts and design practice in representing and commemorating a new political community of Turks within the cultural transformation from empire to nation-state between 1908-50s. It offers an expanded understanding of nation-building within global, public as well a...
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Women’s agency and the gothic in spain and the americas
This volume offers a unique transnational and transhistorical exploration of the relationship between women and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas. By examining how women writers have reimagined Gothic conventions, the book delves into the intersection of gender, culture, and fear. It highlight...
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Walking with the enemy
This book is about artists and activists who have embraced mimicry as a subversive tactic and responded to ideologies by imitating their outward forms. Chapters discuss mimicry in reference to the post-truth era, the neoliberal consensus, the politics of race and gender, online subcultures, the r...
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Mexican muralist, international marxist
This book interprets the later murals of the Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros in light of his Marxist internationalism.
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The queen, or the excellency of her sex
A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford which was accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his works and so has not received much attention. A full introduction explores what made the play interesting to audiences both when it was first written in t...
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Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge
Developing the concept of disobedient knowledge, this book provides new perspectives on activism and everyday struggles against racism and borders. Drawing on empirical research in distinct European contexts, the chapters highlight the intertwined nature of racism and bordering, and the role of ...
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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...
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Women in exile in early modern europe and the americas
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes impo...
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India and imperial vulnerability
This is a study of disasters – cyclones, earthquakes and famines – in British India, 1770-1934, through a reading of a vast archive of colonial texts.
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Reframing margaret thatcher
Against the backdrop of Britain’s historically anti-Thatcherite films of the 1980s and 1990s, Reframing Margaret Thatcher outlines a decisive shift in the collective imagination of Thatcher. Drawing on genre theory, trauma and queer studies, it demonstrates how post-Thatcherite films reflect upon...
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Borderline bodies in art and visual culture
Borderline Bodies offers original interpretations of visual representations of the human body as both bounded and porous, fortified and vulnerable, mobile and constrained—subject to borders yet capable of crossing and challenging them. It also examines images and objects that are themselves “bord...
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Romanticizing masculinity in baathist syria
This book documents the influence of European Romantic nationalism in shaping the vision and practices of the Baathist regime in Syria, with particular attention to the impact of new concepts of gender in public life, the role of these constructs in perpetuating conflict and inequality, and curre...
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Morisco knights in renaissance spain
This book argues that Renaissance culture and chivalric culture were both central to how “nobility” was sought and defined in early modern Spain. It is the first monograph in English to examine the history and self-fashioning of the famous Granada Venegas family, Morisco knights from Granada, and...
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Geoffrey hill and the ends of poetry
This book shows that the poems of Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) are characteristically ‘end-directed’, tending constantly towards prosodic and thematic consummations. It offers a new thematic reading of Hill's entire body of work and touches on questions of poetry's ultimate value.
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'the industrialized designer'
This book contributes new perspectives on the identity of the industrial designer, particularly from a gendered perspective, through a critical interrogation of the 'heroic male designer'. It explores the professionalisation of industrial design in Britain and the US from 1930–80, a 'new professi...
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Democratizing ai
Democratizing AI argues that AI deployment is a political act requiring democratic control. Zimmermann offers a practical playbook for reclaiming public power from tech elites and shaping AI’s future through civic participation, regulation, and justice.
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The persian gulf triangle
This book explores the relations between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States through a Neoclassical Realist framework and shows how their dynamic has affected the Persian Gulf regional system and its international relations from the 1970s until today.
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Cinematic nightscapes
Cinematic nightscapes explores how night in contemporary Cuba becomes a powerful space for political expression, imagination and artistic experimentation. Through Cuban documentary film, it examines how the night reshapes ethnographic practices and invites new ways of seeing, listening, feeling a...
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Tainted tools
Tainted Tools offers a provocative intervention into the tense relationship between new materialist and decolonial thought. Although both seek to challenge dominant European categories and hierarchies, they are often treated as incompatible. New materialisms, in particular, have been criticised f...
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Translating hell
A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England, Wales, and Iceland. This book explores how apocrypha about hell encouraged early vernacular literary experiments with hefty theological and local implications, as writers harnes...
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Three scandinavian missionary women and the armenian genocide
Based on the lives of three missionary women, this book explores humanitarian aid to Armenians from a Scandinavian angle and discusses the transnational, religious and gendered dimensions of relief work. It addresses religious motivations and missionary practices in humanitarianism and the rolesp...
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Gestures
This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards.
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The sound of difference
The sound of difference examines how diversity work takes shape in a cultural sector deeply implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism.
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Jacques feyder
This is the first English-language book on Jacques Feyder, one of the Golden Age of French cinema’s most prolific directors. Although once hailed as a major filmmaker, Feyder’s reputation waned in the decades following his death, and scholars tend to underestimate his contributions to cinema. Thi...
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Little wars of empire
Little Wars of Empire is first history of British multi-war veterans – the soldiers, nurses, and military families who experienced both colonial wars in the British empire and the First World War. Using their personal archives, it works to understand how at the turn of the twentieth century, colo...
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The carolingian south
The Carolingian South brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine the impact of the lands south of the Loire and the Alps in defining and shaping the Carolingian empire.
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From iceland to the americas
This volume looks at how Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural...
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Let the dead speak
Let the dead speak explores the historical and social dynamics of Spiritualism, the religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-century parlour séances and ghost photography.
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‘survival capitalism’ and the big bang
Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyd’s of London. It offers timely new perspectives on the City of London’s Big Bang reforms as the Con...
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The vietnam idea
The Vietnam Idea explores the visual politics of solidarity, and asks how global protest art made during the Vietnam-American War shaped—and complicated—transnational leftist identity and political imagination, both then and now.
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Gendered urban violence among brazilians
This book aims to examine the nature of and resistance to gendered urban violence among Brazilian women in London and in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on the conceptualisation of translocational gendered urban violence framework, it highlights the importance of examining direct for...
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Tis pity she's a whore
A scholarly, modern-spelling critical edition of John Ford’s 1633 play, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore.
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Irish townspeople
A work of Irish urban history that studies the society and culture of townspeople, including their integration as citizens, their membership of fraternities, guilds and parishes and their charity. As civic leaders they forged political and confessional identities that set them at odds with church...
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The picture politics of sir francis carruthers gould
The first major study of Britain’s pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844–1925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted.
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Sexual violence in racial capitalism
This book explores the relationships between sexual violence and racial capitalism. Sexual violence, Alison Phipps argues, facilitates the enclosure of bodies, the extraction of labour, the expropriation of land and resources, and the disposal of unwanted populations.
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Anti-racism in britain
This volume explores the shifting nature of anti-racism in Britain through 11 illuminating case studies. Together, they highlight the tensions between solidarity and paternalism, demonstrate the interplay between local, national and transnational forces, and illustrate the legacies and trajectori...
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The legacy of john polidori
This collection explores the genesis of John Polidori’s foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy from the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, through further Gothic fictions and horror films, t...
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Governing the military
Governing the military is an up-to-date study of key contemporary challenges to govern the military and the ongoing successes and failures by post-dictatorship civilians in Chile to reform national defence governance.
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Photographic afterlives
This book explores the resurfacing of photographs from the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) in contemporary art and photobooks by tracing some of the unexpected paths along which photographs travel and argues that contemporary archival art can equip viewers with the necessary tools for read...
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Letter writing in the northumbrian kingdom, 625–786
Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom offers a pioneering exploration of Northumbria’s epistolary culture, demonstrating how letters functioned as a medium for intellectual exchange, political diplomacy, and religious expression, while also illuminating the broader cultural networks and lite...
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Women and madness in the early romantic novel
This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures of control and to revise misogynistic medical and popular sentimental models that blamed inherent female weakness and the aberrant female body for women’s mental and emotional afflic...
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Unruly subjects
Unruly Subjects unravels how everyday solidarity, resistance, and violent abandonment intersect at Europe’s borders. Through long-term ethnographic research in Greece, it explores the creative, yet ambivalent solidarities between ‘illegalised’ migrants incarcerated in camps and the grassroots vol...
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The politics of middle english parables
This study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late-medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christ...
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The mediated arctic
This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production – from literature and cinema to comics, hip hop, and cartography. It is a timely intervention into circumpolar studies at a time when Indigenous Arctic homelands have entered global media ...
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Heritage and healing in syria and iraq
This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research into trauma and trauma recovery, it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to use heritage for he...
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Contemporary chaucer across the centuries
This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in medieval literary and medievalism studies, provi...
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Children’s rights in crisis
This book explores the intricacies of contemporary children's rights on a global scale, scrutinizing the challenges they face from a multidisciplinary perspective.
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Readers and mistresses
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2025Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Elizabeth Gask...
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Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism
Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism is an important intervention into social reproduction theory and eco-socialist debates. It provides a timely analysis of the role of expropriation in the current global water crisis and makes a persuasive argument for understanding class as a...
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Territorial politics in catalonia and scotland
This book compares the developments of territorial politics in Catalonia and Scotland since 2010, paying particular attention to the impact of independence referenda, Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the experiences of state and substate elites in both cases and argues for further re...
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