Anthropology after gluckman

This book places the Manchester School in the vanguard of modern social anthropology. Werbner reveals not only the cosmopolitan distinctiveness but also the force of creative difference in the ideas, interdisciplinary approaches, and travelling theories of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman.

Mid-century gothic

Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism about the future. By reassessing the novels, films, visual culture and technologies of the period, the book argues that gothicism itself was...

Habermas and european integration

This concise yet comprehensive book delineates German philosopher Jürgen Habermas’s conception of the European Union.

Adjusting the contrast

This volume looks at a range of texts and practices that address race and its relationship with television. It explores television policy and the management of race, how transnationalism can diminish racial diversity, historical questions of representation, the myth of a multicultural England and...

The politics of war reporting

This book challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences alike have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the world. It unpacks the taken-for-granted aspects of the lives of war correspondents, exposing the principles of interaction and valorisation that usu...

The transatlantic reconsidered

The Atlantic community seems to be in crisis and it is time to critically rethink past narratives and traditional frameworks of transatlantic relations. Exploring the historiography and legacies of the Atlantic World, contributors open up new, transnational, and global perspectives, helping us to...

Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in northern europe

This book underscores the centrality of refugees to the workings of current dynamics of social and cultural membership in the welfare state. The contributions look into the meaning of the welfare state, as represented in legal and discursive practices, and the imagination of those seeking to buil...

Pauper policies

A fresh perspective, which reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars

Partners in deterrence

The book explains how and why nuclear weapons cooperation between the US and its allies has evolved since the 1950s. By bringing institutional perspectives to the study of how alliances operate, it focuses on the objectives and sources of influence of US allies in Europe and Asia as they cooperat...

The blunt affair

The Blunt Affair examines a range of literary and filmic texts on the Cambridge spies and related topics – including British intelligence’s betrayal of Alan Turing, the Profumo Affair and the Portland spy case – in the context of the culture and politics of the late Cold War.

My voice: gerda rothberg

Gerda'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. Gerda Rothberg's father was taken away after Kristallnacht and her family arranged for Gerda and her sisters to escape to the UK on the...

Bodas de sangre

Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism c...

Devolution and electoral politics

This book presents a comparative perspective on the new dynamics of electoral competition following devolution to Scotland and Wales. It offers the first discussion of multi-level electoral dynamics in other western democracies thud proposing how electoral competition might develop in the devolve...

Chris abani

Touching on global issues such as violence, sexual abuse, gender, performativity, marginality, migration and human rights, Abani’s work testifies to the centrality of his literary voice in the contemporary literary panorama. This book shows how aesthetics overlaps with ethics and how forms of ext...

Air empire

Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain’s development of international air ...

Accounting for health

Linking calculative practices and medicine, this book suggests a broader understanding of accounting. With a longue duree perspective the book investigates how calculative practices have affected medical knowing and how these practices changed over time in various countries of the Western world.

The magnetic lady

Religion and rights

In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence.

Courteous exchanges

This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers’ and audiences’ judgement about the social construction of aristocratic identity.

Shell-shocked british army veterans in ireland, 1918-39

This study provides the first exclusive analysis of disabled First World War veterans who returned to Ireland. With a case study of mental illness, it foregrounds how the treatment and experiences of disabled communities in past societies is shaped by the existing socio-economic, cultural and pol...

Critical security in the asia-pacific

This book offers an accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalisation and vulnerability in the region, and a powerful argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable. It Considers issues such as tension on the Korean peninsula, environmental change, Indonesian co...

Beard's roman women

Anthony Burgess’s compact masterpiece about life, death, and Rome. This new edition offers a new introduction by Graham Foster, a restored text, detailed notes, and appendices of previously unpublished and rare material from the Burgess Archive.

The invisible flâneuse?

This collection of essays applies the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France – painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, posters – resulting in a subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisian modernity, the stomping ...

Shakespeare and the denial of territory

This book examines three Shakespeare plays in which abusive banishment participates in a dialectics of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation (King Richard II, King Lear and Coriolanus). It draws on analyses by French philosophers (notably Deleuze and Foucault), so as to understand strateg...

El camino by miguel delibes

Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green movement. With a blend of hilarity, satire, pathos and tragedy, Delibes artfully explores the process of crossing boundaries in pursuit of maturity and soci...

Coercive confinement in ireland

Provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, Reformatory and Industrial schools, prisons and Borstal formed a network of institutions of c...

Political corruption in ireland 1922–2010

The only scholarly account of Irish corruption from 1922-2010. It empirically maps the decline in standards since Irish independence in 1922, to the loss of economic sovereignty in 2010.

University engagement and environmental sustainability

Details the challenges faced by higher education institutions in considering environmental sustainability

Beyond the state

Examines colonial medical policy and the ways in which doctors of the Colonial Medical Service dealt with the day-to-day reality of care-giving in Imperial Africa.

War and welfare

This book examines the experiences of the millions of service dependents created by total war, particularly those of men taken captive in both Europe and the Far East.

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.

Defectors and the liberal party 1910–2010

This book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span. It investigates all the Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected from the party between the elections of December 1910 and May 2010 - around one sixth of all those elected - as well as the smaller numbe...

Prussians, nazis and peaceniks

In this book, historians and political scientists show how radically external images of Germany changed over the 20th century, from the ‘Prussian military state’ to the ‘bulwark of liberalism.’ They also explore how such images of Germany affected the evolution of international relations theory a...

Cosmopolitan dystopia

Cosmopolitan Dystopia evaluates cosmopolitan liberalism and shows In their effort to avoid the terrible fate of twentieth century utopias, cosmopolitan liberals have nonetheless created a new global dystopia of permanent war and authoritarian power embodied in ‘sovereignty as responsibility’.

Associational anarchism

This book combines Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism with G. D. H. Cole’s democratic pluralism. The result is a regenerated social anarchism, ‘associational anarchism’. Its democratisation of production and consumption form the organisational contours of a new conception of liberty, ‘freedom as...

Transatlantic traumas

Transatlantic traumas surveys the landscape of external and internal threats to Western values and interests, including Russian and Islamist assaults on the West, illiberal radical right populist challenges, Turkey’s undemocratic tendencies, Brexit and the Trump Tsunami.

Children's rights, eastern enlargement and the eu human rights regime

Critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on the EU human rights policy

Complexity / simplicity

This collection interrogates the concept of complex TV, and reappraises the value of simplicity in TV, with reference to a range of television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science-fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas.

No other way to tell it

Students of Television, Film, Media and Theatre studies

The anglo-irish agreement

This book provides new perspectives on the impact of Anglo-Irish Agreement through an exploration of the key concepts of the Northern Ireland Troubles.

The labour governments 1964–1970 volume 1

An analysis of Britain's domestic policy during Harold Wilson’s tenure as Prime Minister.

Joss whedon

A comprehensive analysis of Whedon’s role in shaping the twenty-first-century TV landscape, featuring unique access to drafts of scripts and other source material. The book offers both detailed assessments of individual episodes and overarching histories of production. An essential and timely con...

Scotland

An academic analysis of the foundations and structures of modern-day Scotland that provides insight into Scottish politics, society and culture.

Courting disaster

Drawing parallels with the #MeToo movement, this book explores how a series of brilliant female authors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries cleverly used the novel as a vehicle for ground-breaking discussions about consent.

Women of letters

Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in t...

Players' work time

This critical account of the Musicians' Union from 1893-2013 explores the organisation's development as a set of responses to technological, industrial and socio-political changes.

Decentring france

The first substantial study of multilingual film in France. Unpacking the power dynamics at play in the dialogue of eight emblematic films, this book argues that many contemporary French films take a new approach to language and power.

The life of una marson, 1905–65

This is an original, full length biography of Britain’s first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster. Una Marson is recognised today as the first major woman poet of the Caribbean and as a significant forerunner of contemporary bl...

Films and british national identity

Jeffrey Richards is a regular radio and television commentator on popular culture. Covers the period from Ealing Studios to Dad's Army. A great read.

Lisbon rising

Explores the role of a widespread urban social movement in the revolutionary process that accompanied Portugal’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy.

Geography and science in britain, 1831–1939

Using as its central example the British Association for the Advancement of Science this is the first book-length treatment of this leading body for the promotion of science for more than 25 years and the first ever of British geography’s civic history.

In the shadow of history

From 1926 onward, Sinn Féin, which had been instrumental in the revolutionary period of 1919–23, faded into oblivion as a result of its intransigent and doctrinaire stance. This book unravels a chapter of history that has not been dealt with in detail until now.

From enlightenment to romanticism

This is the second of two anthologies designed to accompany the Open University course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism", an interdisciplinary exploration of the changes and transitions in European culture between 1780 and 1830. The collection of extracts in this anthology provides primary and ...

Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy

Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy provides an up to date and accessible overview of the field, and serves as a practical guide to those seeking to engage in human rights work. Pease argues that while human rights are internationally recognised, important disagreements exist on definition, p...

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...

Social democracy and urban politics

Social democracy and urban politicsdelves into the changing relationship between social democratic, radical left and green parties within the political space of European cities, reflecting upon the formation and dilemmas of a broader progressive alliance.

Scottishness and irishness in new zealand since 1840

Using a range of written, verbal, and visual sources, this book examines distinctive aspects characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand.

Understanding governance in contemporary japan

This book explores the transformation of Japan’s state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on the case studies of ICT regulation and antimonopoly regulation after the 1980s as an example of the new governance school in Japanese politics and beyond.

Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age

This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores British modernity, the social movements of the long 1960s and the Second Vatican Council, while acknowledging transnational relationships and global inter...

Recycling the disabled

Examines the “medical organisation” of Imperial Germany for total war

Reformed identity and conformity in england, 1559–1714

This volume is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on how Reformed theology and ecclesiology related to one of the most consequential issues between the Elizabethan Settlement (1559) and the Hanoverian Succession (1714), namely conformity to the Church of England.

The changing faces of federalism

The book gives an extraordinary contribution to the theoretical, historical, legal and economic debate about the continuity/discontinuity in the European integration process regarding the present enlargement and the (projected) new constitution of the European Union.

Fictional television and american politics

This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. This period comprises a second golden age for fictional TV. The book therefore explores some of the best TV of all time across two dec...

Byron and italy

How did Italy Italianise Byron? And how did Byron Byronise Italy? These are the key questions that the volume sets out to answer.

Coming in

This book reconceptualises Europeanisation and studies how the EU Enlargement has shaped LGBT politics in Serbia. Questioning our ability to reduce LGBT liberation to rights and policies, the book moves beyond legal and institutional change to consider the political consequences the Europeanisati...

The vikings in england

The viking invasion and settlement in England has been the subject of a large and complex body of scholarship, with the consensus of opinion among scholars as to its exact nature and influence shifting considerably over the years.This is a fascinating new study which will make an important ad...

Fashionability

This book examines the history of design and innovation at Abraham Moon and Sons of Guiseley. It is an exciting story of two families, the Moons and the Walshes, who created one of Yorkshire’s longest-living woollen mills that today serves global brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren P...

Money in the medieval english economy 973–1489

The importance of money as one of the key variables in the workings of the medieval economy is often overlooked. This new study first provides the reader with a background to the problems of modelling the medieval economy and the value of the Fisher equation of exchange to monetary historians, to...

Fleshing out surfaces

A strong and insightful work which argues that skin is not just any surface an artist can represent, but a highly overdetermined one. Focusing on five French painters - Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoit and Ingres - it spans the fields of history of art and of medicine.

Wanting and having

Based on a wealth of contemporary evidence and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Wanting and having focuses particularly on the making of the working-class consumer in order to shed new light on key areas of major historical interest, including Chartism, the Anti-Corn Law League, the New Po...

Colonial connections, 1815–45

This book challenges traditional notions of a radical revolution in government, identifying a more profound and general transition from reliance on gossip and personal information to new statistical forms of knowledge. Covers London, New South Wales and the Cape Colony, encompassing government in...

China as context

China as context challenges the marginalization of Chinese-grounded ideas in academia, arguing that neglecting China distorts our understanding of global complexities. Through diverse ethnographic perspectives, this volume repositions China, urging a holistic, post-global approach to the social s...

Performative monuments

Argues the conceptual significance of performance, and of a performative model of art, to the revival of the monument in the wake of the Second World War, the Holocaust and the fall of the Eastern bloc.

Courtship and constraint

The first study of early modern English courtship as a subject in its own right. New historical and anthropological insights into the making of marriage, and an arresting and exciting contribution to the history of the family. Takes the interpretation of the English church court material to a new...

Revisiting divisions of labour

This collection revisits Ray Pahl's 1984 sociology classic, combining excerpts from the original with assessments by leading researchers of how and why the book has stood the test of time as a study that fundamentally re-thinks our understanding of 'work'.

Paul abbott

The first book-length academic study of the television programmes created, written by, and/or executive-produced, by Abbott

Women's rights

This exciting collection of documents offers readers access to primary material illustrating the experiences of women in Britain in politics, society and daily life in the period 1770 to the 1970s.

Immigration and european integration

Migration is at the heart of the contemporary EU. This book addresses the two key questions that underpin EU responses to migration policy. Firstly, the efforts to control immigration and secondly, the chances for inclusion of migrants and their descendants.

The post-crisis irish voter

Provides the definitive study of voting behaviour in the 2016 Irish election

The management of the british economy, 1945–2001

This essential work for students of economic and economic history provides an overview of economic management in Britain since 1945, how it has changed and why it has not always been successful. It examines clearly the policies introduced, the problems various governments faced in implementing th...

Democracy in scandinavia

This book breaks new ground in challenging the established status of the Scandinavian countries as consensual democracies

Vertiginous mirrors

This book traces world journeys of early modern visual images from Europe to distant parts of the world - India, Japan, China, Brazil, Chile - and their return, altered but still recognizable, and ready to be reused with an awareness of their recent travels.

Theatre and religion

This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic.

Postnationalist african cinemas

This book examines the benefits and limits of cultural nationalism, and describes the preliminary steps taken by contemporary filmmakers in order to establish a new popular African cinema.

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...

Critical theory and demagogic populism

This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt School’s relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of ‘modern demagogy’ and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox ‘populism studies’ and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institu...

Re-visioning myth

The first in-depth assessment of myth 're-vision' as a phenomenon in women's drama, examining the diverse ways in which classical myth narratives have been reworked by women playwrights for the European stage.

David milch

This book is about the life and work of David Milch, the writer who created NYPD Blue, Deadwood and other important works of US television drama. It locates him within the traditions of achievement in American literature over the past in order to evaluate his contribution to fiction writing.

Sport and diplomacy

The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society.

Recognition and global politics

Recognition and global politics examines the potential and limitations of the discourse of recognition as a strategy for reframing justice and injustice within contemporary world affairs. Drawing on resources from social and political theory and International Relations theory, as well as feminist...

Orientalism

The first major study of Orientalism by a historian of imperialism, this book offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of this vast literature and concludes that western approaches to the Orient have been much more ambiguous and genuinely interactive than Said allowed.