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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
Drawing on ethnographic research in salsa classes and oral histories this book details the everyday practices of femininity, heterosexuality and ‘new’ intimacies among women in midlife. Challenging conventional notions of the baby boomers it draws attention to how these practices are classed and ...
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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
This book 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 massacres, and attests...
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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 and 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, which char...
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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 explores the relationship between women and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas through transhispanic and feminist interpretive frameworks. It examines how women writers have engaged and reimagined the Gothic to challenge patriarchal norms and oppressive laws within the frameworks of...
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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
This book examines Roman Catholic female missions within the overlapping ambits of colonial and postcolonial India.
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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
Reframing Margaret Thatcher charts how contemporary British film and TV revisit and rewrite the clichéd Iron Lady. It demonstrates how the apparent depoliticization of British film makes visible new relations between genre, cinematic form, and imaginations of the past.
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Borderline bodies in art and visual culture
This collection of essays traverses media, styles, geographies and disciplines to offer innovative interpretations of visual representations of human bodies that might be considered ‘borderline’.
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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 addresses the tension between new materialisms’ decolonial ambitions and its perception as a White discourse. Framing the new materialist method as ‘decolonising from within’, the book examines its benefits and dangers. Rather than pointing to failures of decolonial allyship, the bo...
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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. It argues that a fuller understanding of Feyder’s style involves exploring his provocative portrayals of gender, class and colonialism across his body of work.
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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
Understanding and theorising the translocational, multiscalar, intersectional nature of urban gendered violence and resistance to it in Rio de Janeiro and London.
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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, where letters enabled intellectual exchange, political diplomacy, and religious expression, revealing the cultural networks and literary traditions behind its rise as a hub of Christian...
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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
Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a social justice ethic.
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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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Becoming couture
Becoming couture explains how post-war Italian fashion reinvented itself through the persuasive strategies of intermediaries in Italy and the United States, beyond the myth of Giovanni Battista Giorgini and the Sala Bianca.
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A neoliberal revolution?
A neoliberal revolution? examines the Thatcher government’s attempt to privatise and individualise Britain’s pension system, thereby transforming workers into risk-taking savers with a stake in capitalism. The book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolu...
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Cinematic Ethnography
Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to theories and practices that reside within the fertile zone where anthropology and filmmaking intersect.
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Privatising humanity
This short, powerful book exposes how our essential services have become the assets of international finance, with devastating implications for the future.
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The first referendum
In 1975 the UK voted 'yes', by 67%, to the European Community (EC). Since 1 January 1973, when the UK first joined, Edward Heath and Harold Wilson sought a fundamental transformation of the UK's relationship with the EC in terms of membership and public opinion. Despite the majority in favour of ...
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The Official Record
The construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. This volume interrogates the boundaries between national security, accountability, oversight, and the Official Record in the context of democratic states.
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Cases of citation
This collection investigates the methodological problem of how to see, or read, art that references literature through a series of object-focused chapters on post-1960 artworks. Variously eccentric, playful, reverential and procedural, the diverse range of works engage with literary history by te...
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Taking place
This book presents examination of queer and feminist alternative art spaces in Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It explores how queer and feminist artists have responded to the institutions and histories they have inherited.
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The construction of public opinion in a digital age
This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infrastructure.
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Everyday foreign policy
This book offers a framework for analysing grass roots politics in Russia. It challenges the assumption that international relations only happen on the high level and instead focuses on the way general population enacts and re-interprets significant foreign policy concepts such as sanctions, wars...
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Depleting democracies
Depleting democracies explores the impact of radical right parties on their mainstream competitors, public policies regarding vulnerable groups and the respective polities in Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Black Sea. It argues that these parties drive a process of depletion that fundamenta...
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Rebel populism
Rebel populism is an ethnography of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon during the Syrian uprising and civil war. It documents the rise and fall of the revolution from the perspective of ordinary men. It explores the role of economic transformation, new technology, and masculinity in the developmen...
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Border abolitionism
This book mobilises an abolitionist approach to contemporary borders, combining critical migration scholarship and carceral abolitionism literature. It argues that a critique of borders involves rethinking the right to mobility as part of processes of commoning.
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Cyber-espionage in international law
This book analyses the normative avoidance of cyber-espionage, arguing that it is neither prohibited nor authorised by international law. This situation did not emerge by chance but through the purposeful silence of States, leaving them free to pursue cyber-espionage themselves at the same time a...
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Roger Michell
Brian McFarlane’s book, Roger Michell, is a study of one of the most interesting (and least explored) directors of recent British cinema. It offers analyses of his films in various categories, in a style aimed at general readers with an interest in British film.
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Elites in civil society
Challenging the assumption that civil society is inherently egalitarian, this book investigates the formation of a distinct civil society elite, its integration with political and business leaders, and the paradoxes this presents for a civil society striving to offer a counter balance to society’...
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A Confucian theory of power
This book reconstructs the Confucian account of power in terms of responsibility from historical and normative perspectives. It pays special attention to the liability and active dimensions of Confucian power as responsibility, which undergirds “responsibility meritocracy” and “Confucian active c...
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Converting Ireland
Karina Bénazech Wendling re-assesses ‘souperism’ and British cultural imperialism through the use of the Irish language and Bible in schools. The book explores Protestant societies in Ireland’s religious and political landscape, Catholic counter-missions, and nationalist resistance, offering new ...
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The art of decolonisation
The art of decolonisation examines how artists challenged colonial legacies and reconfigured power through transnational networks of art and diplomacy. Adopting a global and transhistorical perspective, it explores artistic, political, and institutional relations between France and Senegal during...
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Critical theory and the critique of alternative societies
This book turns to the ideas of the early Frankfurt School to critically engage with key developments within anti-capitalist activism.
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Christ’s war
Christ’s war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution in the following century during the Northmen’s attacks. The book offers important insights into the religious nature of Frankish warfare, while also contributing a fresh and innova...
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Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts
This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century ‘Easts’. It offers novel conceptualisations and methodologies to fictions and travel writing in and of the cultural, geographical and ideological contexts surrounding the nineteenth-cen...
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Q is for Garden
In this book, Jenny Chamarette explores the history of queer gardeners, botanists, artists and agriculturalists, revealing that the world of the garden is much more fluid and porous than we might imagine. The book invites readers to reimagine how we inhabit land, culture and each other.
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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 101/2
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.
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Legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand
This book investigates the legacies of British slavery beyond Britain, focusing upon the colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, and explores why this history has been overlooked.
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Rebel women between the wars
An original history of thirteen interwar women who successfully challenged male dominance in a wide range of occupations, from mountaineering to motoring and humanitarian activism. Through their diaries, letters and other personal writings, we see the strategies they used to break free from domes...
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Queer as folklore
This book takes the reader around the world on a journey to discover the queer stories behind the characters of folklore, from werewolves and faeries to demons and aliens.
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Eva Gore-Booth: Irish radical poet, rebel and reformer
This anniversary reissue of the acclaimed biography tells the remarkable life story of Eva Gore-Booth, an author and activist who rejected her aristocratic heritage and became a champion of Irish independence and women's suffrage.
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Manchester must dance
A gripping memoir of Mike Pickering's five decades in the music industry, which saw him DJing at the Haçienda, signing Happy Mondays and James to Factory Records and selling millions of albums with his band M People.
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