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The divorce of king lothar and queen theutberga
The first published translation of Hincmar’s treatise – a key source for studying ninth-century political history and the ideology of kingship.
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The european union in the asia-pacific
The collection studies the interactions of the European Union and the Asia Pacific, focusing on the EU as an emerging global player in contemporary international relations.
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A knight’s legacy
The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle Ages, highly influencing European perceptions of exotic lands and peoples at the onset of the Age of Discoveries.
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Heroes and happy endings
Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s
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Art against censorship
Art against censorship traces the centrality of literary and theatrical satire to the artistic and political expression of the artist Honoré Daumier. Daumier drew on seventeenth-century theatre and literature in moments of stifling censorship, foregrounding the subversive potential of a newly glo...
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Ordering africa
provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research quest...
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Germs and governance
This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infectio...
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I refuse to condemn
I refuse to condemn highlights how in times of national security a culture of condemnation is expected of people of colour that sits at the heart of structurally racist systems. This collection catalogues the ways in which scholars and activists experience and resist this expectation.
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Space and being in contemporary french cinema
This book brings together five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. It explores their unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profou...
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Politics of waiting
This book is a political ethnography that examines how welfare programmes for the unemployed function as a contemporary form of state control.
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Robert lepage's original stage productions
This book calls upon globalisation, queer, cinema, and affect studies to explore key Robert Lepage productions from 1984 to 2008, analysing the systems through which his work is produced and disseminated.
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Descending with angels
This book and award-winning film provide a unique account of the invisible dynamics of possession and psychosis, and how Muslim patients are transformed through the treatments offered by mosques and the psychiatric institutions of European nation-states.
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Held in contempt
The House of Commons is the United Kingdom’s key democratic institution. But it faces serious challenges which it is ill-equipped to meet. This book examines what is wrong with the House of Commons, how we got here and what can be done about it.
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Cultural identities and the aesthetics of britishness
Considers how notions of Britishness were constructed and promoted through architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature. Maps important moments in the self-conscious evolution of the idea of ‘nation’ against a broad cultural historical framework. An important addition to the field ...
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Human agents and social structures
This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate – such as ‘society’ and the ‘individual’ – have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real natu...
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Cultures and caricatures of british imperial aviation
Looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Gathers new evidence to distil the age, class, gender and occupational profiles of people who used private and commercial aircraft and looks at how flying in the ...
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Living in sin
Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in Victorian England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. The work also analyses marriage, the Victorian legal system, relations with kin and the reactions of the wider comunities to extra-legal partnerships.
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The reputation of philanthropy since 1750
Philanthropy, a 'love of humankind', is now thought of as the rich giving to good causes. The Reputation of Philanthropy explores how this came about and asks why praise for philanthropists has always been matched by criticism. Original and accessible, the book will inform thinking about the prop...
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Time and radical politics in france
How does our perception of time shape our political ideas and commitments? This cutting-edge monograph makes a major contribution to the history of time by exploring how thinkers and activists of the French radical left and right conceived of the past, present and future in the period between the...
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Making social democrats
This book, a collection of essays by some of Britain’s leading academics, public intellectuals and political practitioners, seeks to engage with the ‘big picture’ of British social democracy, both historical and contemporary, and point to grounds for greater optimism for its future prospects.
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Italian graphic design
This book tells the story of graphic designers in Milan from the 1930s to the 1960s. Focusing on design education, everyday practice, organisational strategies, mediating channels and modernism, it contributes to our understanding of the role graphic design has played in the history of Italian vi...
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Travel and the british country house
Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of good...
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Mundane methods
Mundane Methods brings together an exciting array of interdisiplinary approaches to researching the extra-ordinary everyday. Covering themes of materials and memories, emotions and senses, and mobilities and motion, the collection is a practical, hands-on guide for students and scholars intereste...
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The social significance of dining out
The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England. It compares systematically popular practice in 1995 and 2015. Differences in taste and behaviour surrounding eating in restaurants and as guests of friends are put in the context of wider social and ...
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Housewives and citizens
This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women’s organisations made to women’s lives and to the campaign for women’s rights throughout the period 1928–64.
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Literature and class
This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants’ Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth.
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Borrowed objects and the art of poetry
This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia – creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection.
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Violence against women's health in international law
Taking the Hippocratic paradigm as backbone of the analysis, the book conceptualises a new notion under international law, ‘violence against women’s health’, which allows the reader to reflect on two interrelated dimensions of violence, the horizontal ‘inter-personal’ and the vertical ‘State poli...
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Jewish women in europe in the middle ages
Looks at the relationships between men and women within Jewish communities living in Germany, northern France and England in the late Middle Ages.
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Marguerite duras
The first book in English to deal exclusively with Duras' cinema, including such films as India Song, Le Camion, and Nathalie Granger. Provides a lucid and stimulating introduction to her films, which is accessible to a wide readerhip, both specialist and non-specialist.. Locates the films in the...
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Wales and the british overseas empire
This unique collection of essays examines the many relationships that existed between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830.
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Heroic imperialists in africa
This book looks at imperial heroes from behind the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories under a radically new angle. It demonstrates how their reputations were made over several decades, and depicts the milieus and individuals who...
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Freedom and protection
This book examines the history of monastic exemption in early medieval France. In this era, the popes in Rome became de facto rulers and proprietors of numerous monasteries, establishing a foothold in the emerging business of monastic freedom and protection. The book explains the ‘why’ and ‘how’ ...
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The lure of violence
This book offers a novel interpretation of conservative and right-wing responses to the Edwardian crisis in Britain (1901-1914). It stresses how the upsurge of right-wing extremism within and outside the Conservative party materialized into the formation of a myriad of bellicose and semi-militari...
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Tamburlaine the great
Authoritative version of this much loved play. Back in print after a dozen years with corrections and amendations. Part of MUP's strategy to have the complete works of Marlowe in print by the year 2000. Very popular edition by one of the most respected dramatic scholars.
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Conflict, politics and proselytism
An exploration of Methodist missionaries working in Upper Burma between 1887 and 1966
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The extended self
Refuting popular concepts of the self as separate beings, the author proposes a new theory of the “extended self” as a product of the coevolution of humankind and technology, comprising both social and material elements
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Straight nation
Straight Nation dissects nationalism in postcolonial Singapore, exposing its reliance on the governance of sexuality. Dispelling liberal ideas of the nation, the book highlights nationalism's threatening nature and calls for an expansive, non-identarian approach to dismantling the entrenched hete...
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Charles darwin's the origin of species
Several new readings, crossing the fields of history, literature, sociology, anthropology and history of science, demonstrate the complex position of the text within cultural debates past and present.
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The souls of white folk
A striking new interpretation of white settlement in early colonial Kenya
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Dictionary of british politics
A comprehensive reference book for anyone interested in Britiush politics, covering modern history, institutions, ideas, key terms and key political biographies.
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John lyly and early modern authorship
During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time.
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Shakespeare's storms
Explains the special effects used to represent storms in the early modern playhouses, and details how those effects filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language. With chapters on Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Pericles and The Tempest
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Defense policies of east-central european countries after 1989
This book clarifies the ways in which the defense policies of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia have responded to the new atmosphere on the edge of Europe, in light of Russian aggressiveness during and after the 2013-2014 Ukrainian-Crimean crisis.
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Photography and documentary film in the making of modern brazil
Investigates the Brazilian image world in the first four decades of the twentieth century.
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Terence fisher
This book offers an appreciation of all of Fisher's films and also gives a sense of his place in British film history
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The world of el cid
Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile, covering the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the story of Rodrigo Díaz, better r...
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Not magic but work
This is a detailed description of the intensive work process involved in the making of Toy Symphony, a new play by Michael Gow, directed by Neil Armfield and brought to the stage for the first time in December 2007 by Company B at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney. Drawing on years of research...
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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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Russian grand strategy in the era of global power competition
This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia's international activity: is Moscow acting strategically or opportunistically, and should this be understood in regional or global terms?
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Literature and sustainability
This edited collection brings together twelve essays by leading and upcoming scholars, the aim of which is to contribute critically to conceptions of sustainability from the standpoint of environmental literary scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in ecocrit...
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Gothic effigy
An adventurous and wide-ranging survey of Gothic media, this book investigates everything from oil paintings to album cover art, magic lanterns to video games.
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Robert southwell
Robert Southwell’s poetic view of Spenser’s, Signey’s and Shakespeare’s England is a cold one. This book close reads and contextualises his lighter lyric poetry and its connections to English recusant culture from the music of Willian Bryd to the coded embroideries of Mary Queen of Scots.
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Women art workers and the arts and crafts movement
Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and in...
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Claude chabrol
This is the first book-length study in English on Chabrol since 1970. Chabrol has always been a neglected figure in the French New Wave but has recently been declared 'possibly the greatest living film director in France'.. Coincides with the recent renewal of interest in Chabrol, which has seen ...
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Early modern war narratives and the revolt in the low countries
The Revolt in the Low Countries is one of the major conflicts of early modern Europe. Though it is mostly seen as a war between the Dutch and the Spanish, in reality it was a complex civil war with international involvement. This book returns to the original war narratives of the period, re-estab...
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Direct democracy
Combining the latest scholarship and academic research with current debates, Direct Democracy is essential reading for political scientists, lawyers, journalists and anybody who is interested in the challenges facing democracies today. Direct Democracy shows when government by the people can imp...
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The rise of the modern art market in london
The first study of how the art market developed in London and made the city the capital of the international trade in art.
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Bound together
This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present.
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Daniel calparsoro
This is the first book-length study of this major director’s work, from his early social-realist films set in the Basque Country to his later forays into the genres of the war and horror.
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Writing the welsh borderlands in anglo-saxon england
An ambitious book which argues that the March of Wales, as it existed as a legally defined space in the period after 1066, had a long pre-history as a place of encounter and interchange from the early Anglo-Saxon period. It is argued that this frontier space was not inevitably a zone of ethnic co...
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Communism and anti-communism in early cold war italy
The books detects the struggle of Communism and anti-Communism as a key feature for the making of the political system in post-WWII democratic Italy, and presents it in its international context through a broad analysis of the main communication networks
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André téchiné
This is the first full-length monograph in English on one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, whose originality lies in his subtle exploration of sexuality and national identity
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Exploring history 1400–1900
This book offers a broad sweep of 500 years of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and state-formation. This book illuminates links between concurrent events in diverse places and provides insights into the daily concerns and critical debates...
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The study of dress history
Over the past ten years the study of dress history has achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on mater...
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Novel horizons
Monograph on the history of the novel and of creative writing, from the English Restoration in the seventeenth century.
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Disclosed poetics
John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching, and on the work of other poets, particularly contemporary writers with which he feels some affinity.
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Women reading shakespeare 1660–1900
Comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare.
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The labour governments 1964–1970 volume 3
A thorough analysis of Britain's economic policy under the Labour governments in the 1960s.
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Immigration and social cohesion in the republic of ireland
In the last decade Ireland’s immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. This is the first major academic book to offer a detailed account of how immigrants in Ireland are faring and is the first to address the challenge of integration and social cohesion.
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The urban life of workers in post-soviet russia
This book provides a novel approach towards the urban life of working-class communities, using the example of Russia’s post-industrial cities. Focusing on the sensual, imaginary and practical aspects of everyday struggles, this approach helps explain how workers produce micro-change in urban spac...
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Karl polanyi
This volume makes a significant contribution to the new economic sociology. It draws upon a Polanyian foundation but moves forward, developing neo-Polanyian agendas in relation to developments of contemporary capitalism.
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The pope and the pill
This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in post-war England. It offers a fresh perspective on the idea that ‘sex killed God’, reframing dominant approaches to the histories of sex, religion and so...
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Policing race, ethnicity and culture
The book explores interactions between police officers and citizens in European countries, asking how differences such as race, culture and ethnicity are brought up and in what way they shape these encounters.
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Alison uttley: spinner of tales
An acclaimed biography of one of Britain's most popular writers
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Serving the public
Exploring the food we serve in schools, hospitals and prisons, this book argues that public food provision offers a microcosm of society at large. It highlights how public institutions are harnessing the power of purchase to secure public health.
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The model arab league manual
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the Model Arab League (MAL) programme for first time and returning students. Drawing on over fourteen years of combined experience in successfully leading award-winning MAL delegations, Philip D’Agati and Holly A. Jordan provide students with an ...
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Country houses and the british empire, 1700–1930
Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries
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The end of the small party?
The first book to uncover how small groups like Change UK/The Independent Group exert influence in the British Parliament, based on first-hand interviews with the MPs themselves.
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Stage women, 1900–50
This book presents cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. It explore women’s networks of professional practice in the performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women’s sense and experience of professional agency in an indust...
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Marxism and america
If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism’s recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: New appraisals sheds new light on that question in essays that engage sexuality, gender, race, nationalism, class, memory, and much more.
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The political writings of archbishop wulfstan of york
Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) is among the most important legal and political thinkers of the early Middle Ages. A leading ecclesiastic, innovative legislator, and influential royal councilor, Wulfstan witnessed firsthand the violence and social unrest that culminated in the fall of the E...
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Working for the clampdown
The diverse essays gathered in Working for the clampdown cast a critical light on both the cultural legacy and contemporary resonance of one of the most influential bands ever to have graced a stage.
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The new inn
The New Inn is one of the most neglected of Jonson's plays which is now finding a new and appreciative audience. The spelling has been modernised and the text updated and corrected for this paperback edition. There is also a critical introduction, helpful appendices and a commentary which explai...
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Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices
The book explores missing person issues and human disappearances from an anthropological perspective. It analyses reasons behind disappearances and the political and practical ways of dealing with them, suggesting a conceptual framework for understanding disappearances across varying political an...
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Building reputations
This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and architectural taste, it rehabilitates the reputation of the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and c...
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Munitions of the mind
New edition of a classic work on the history of propaganda. Topical new chapters on the 1991 Gulf War, September 11 and terrorism. An ideal textbook for all international courses covering media and communication studies. Considers the history of propaganda and how it has become increasingly perva...
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