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Internet-mediated participation beyond the nation state
This book addresses the growing gap between policy makers and (organised) citizens, and attempts by international organisations to implement a multi-stakeholder approach largely facilitated by the internet.
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A ragged schooling
With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the ...
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Migrant architects of the nhs
Migrant Architects is the first book to assess the impact of the migration of doctors from the Indian subcontinent on postwar development of British general practice and by extension the ways in which they influenced the development of the NHS.
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Thomas pynchon
A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon
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The politics of male friendship in contemporary american fiction
How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction – from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu – has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes o...
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Independents in irish party democracy
The aim of this book is to explain this anomaly, how and why independents can endure in a democracy that is one of the oldest surviving in Europe and has historically had one of the most stable party systems.
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Partners in suspense
A compelling collection that looks at one of the most famed director-composer collaborations in film history.
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Disability in the industrial revolution
This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled people’s working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Bri...
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Capital and popular cinema
Capital and popular cinema responds to the need for a more solid academic approach by situating 'low' film genres in their economic and culturally-specific contexts and by exploring the interconnections between those contexts, the immediate industrial-financial interests sustaining the films, and...
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Sounds of liberty
Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and distance. It brings to light the importance of music in the lived experience of politics of those who composed, performed and consumed it. It provid...
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Eradicating deafness?
How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of ...
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Kazuo ishiguro
Newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars with chapters on the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, this book offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new t...
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The gulf states and the horn of africa
This timely volume offers a critical analysis of the regional and international relations of the Horn of Africa and Red Sea, focussing on the role of states from the Persian Gulf in these developments.
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Medicine, health and irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45
A wide ranging volume on medical history, that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the World Wars.
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A new imperative
Analyses co-operation between universities and regional authorities
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Understanding the mafia
An anthology of writings in Italian which examine the origins, nature and culture of the Sicilian mafia.
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Ingmar bergman
This book combines new approaches to Bergman’s films and writings with more traditional analyses of widely acclaimed masterpieces like Smiles of a Summer Night and Fanny and Alexander. Most of the contributors are established Bergman specialists, and all of them provide challenging readings of th...
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Mega-events and social change
Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics.
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Debt as power
Debt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The...
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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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Contemporary slavic horror across media
In the Western cultural production that puts individual or collective fear at its center, East/Central Europe has been portrayed as an othered space of horror – lawless, frightening zones where anything can happen. Incorporating articles on literature, film, visual arts, video games, music videos...
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Our common wealth
This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of public ownership in the United States, arguing that it is more widespread, popular, and efficient than is commonly understood.
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A defence of witchcraft belief
This edition of a previously unpublished manuscript defence of witchcraft belief offers a unique insight into learned opinion on the subject in Elizabethan England. It includes a comprehensive analytical introduction and will appeal to scholars with an interest in witchcraft across disciplinary b...
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Gothic documents
How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? What did the term 'Gothic' mean, when Horace Walpole used it in the subtitle of his experimental novel The Castle of Otranto? How did a type of writing which broke. Based on intensive research, it demonstr...
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Julio medem
This, the first book-length study of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem in English, contains profound analysis of his life and films in the context of contemporary Spain and World cinema and is based on original interviews with Medem and many of his collaborators by the author, an establish...
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This is your hour
This book examines responses of a Christian intellectual group in 1930s and 1940s Britain to totalitarianism and war. Seeking ‘middle ways’ through what has been called the ‘age of extremes’, the group sought to apply faith to the social order, influence public opinion and inspire a social renewa...
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Twenty british films
This book examines twenty major British films from a seventy-year time span, offering a lively account of what has made them valuable and provocative over many viewings.
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Theatre in crisis?
A wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. Contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theatre artists ...
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A literature of restitution
Investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell.
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Women and museums, 1850–1914
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing domestic objects and domestic regimes of ...
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Repeal and revolution
Repeal and revolution. 1848 in Ireland examines the events that led up to the 1848 rising and examines the reasons for its failure. It places the rising in the context of political changes outside Ireland, especially the links between the Irish nationalists and radicals and republicans in Britain...
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Finance and accounting for business
A textbook designed to teach the student of management ninety per cent of all they will ever need to know in accounting and finance at any level within their organisation.
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The united states supreme court
This book provides an accessible but thorough account of the US Supreme Court and its influence on American society and political life.
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Red closet
Based on unique and previously undiscovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LBGT people in the USSR.
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Mothers on american television
This book offers a psychoanalytical, Marxist, feminist approach to the way motherhood is portrayed in quality American television series and how that affects the position of mothers in neoliberal American society.
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Supreme emergency
An insider’s view of the development of the UK nuclear deterrent which suggests that an aversion to the moral issues associated with civilian casualties has led to an enduring Government reticence on nuclear deterrence policy.
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Monasticism in late medieval england, c.1300–1535
Monasticism in Late Medieval England provides an ideal introduction to this subject for students and scholars alike. It combines translated sources relating to every aspect of late medieval monastic life with the first extended overview of pre-Reformation monasticism in England for a generation.
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Global networks of indigeneity
This book brings together a range of Indigenous perspectives, forming a global network of writers, thinkers, and scholars connected by common investments in Indigenous futures.
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In the shadow of enoch powell
This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate of crisis in British society.
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The neurologists
Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists
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French origins of english tragedy
Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period.
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The politics of feeling in brexit britain
This book challenges the idea that Brexit was a contest between ‘heads’ and ‘hearts’, and offers a fresh account of political feelings and the stories we tell about them.
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Britain and its internal others, 1750–1800
This book revisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses. Each case adjudicated the presence of outsiders in London – from Jews and Gypsies to Africans and Catholics.
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Citizenship, identity and immigration in the european union
Now available in paperback, this volume blends normative political theory with European integration, and develops an original theoretical framework for European Union citizenship, identity and immigration as well as a set of policy proposals for institutional reform.
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The autobiography of a nation
First full-length study on the 1951 Festival of Britain. An examination of how Britain and Britishness were portrayed in the 1951’s Festival’s exhibitions and events. Covers the Festival’s history and historiography, purpose, representations of the future and past, the role of London and the ‘loc...
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My voice: sonja sternberg
Sonja'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. Sonja Sternberg was born in Berlin. Her family escaped Germany in 1939 by sailing to Cuba but their ship was turned away. Eventually, S...
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Madrid on the move
Madrid on the move offers an account of illustrated print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account of modernity from a transnational perspective. Drawing on different kinds of printed images and texts, the book explores what being modern meant to p...
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How to be a historian
What is unique about this volume is that is explores the history of historical studies through the prism of ‘scholarly personae’ (models of virtue, embodying how to be a historian). It offers a stimulating new perspective on the unity, or disunity, of historical scholarship as it existed in ninet...
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Pierrot and his world
The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot’s recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art o...
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Trans-global readings
Gathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work.
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Democracy on demand
Democracy on demand is a most comprehensive analysis of the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of referendums and the challenges to modern democracy. It shows how democracy is vulnerable, and how it can be saved from demagogues.
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Coup in damascus
Coup in Damascus explores Syria's 1949 military coup by focusing on cost-driven political action. Rihan affirms that flawed monetary policies, disrupted trade, and recurrent economic interventionism led to the rise of authoritarianism, thereby offering a fresh interdisciplinary perspective on Mid...
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Africa 2.0
Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies – mobile calling and internet – were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of liberalisation and privatisation that needed to be ...
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Political culture in later medieval england
An important collection of essays on the subjects of kingship, lordship, warfare and sanctity, penned by the highly respected historian of late medieval England, the late Professor Simon Walker
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Leadership and social movements
Despite the explosion of social movement research in Europe and the US in the last 20 years, the question of leadership has been relatively neglected. This probing examination of the theory and practice of social movement leadership critically re-examines a series of classic cases.
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Labour and the politics of empire
This is a pathbreaking comparative and trans-national study of the neglected influences of nation, empire and race upon the development and electoral fortunes of the Labour Party in Britain and the Australian Labor Party from their formative years of the 1900s to the elections of 2010. Based upon...
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Border porosities
By drawing on geology’s approaches to studying porosity, the book takes an innovative approach arguing that similarly to rocks and minerals that only appear solid and impermeable, seemingly impenetrable borders are inevitably traversed by different forms of passage.
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Gender, artwork and the global imperative
A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s
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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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History and memory
Supplies an accessible and readable introduction to recent work on memory in history and other disciplines, and contributes to debate on the nature and significance of history as an intellectual discipline.
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Mobilizing nature
Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known conflicts whilst uncovering the largely 'hidden' history of the numerous military bases and other installations that pepper the French countryside.
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Saints and cities in medieval italy
This book offers full translations of the Lives of seven saints (five men and two women) who lived in Italian cities between about 1150 and 1315. It will interest both students and other readers curious about medieval Italian history and about medieval popular religion and sainthood.
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Mid-century women's writing
This book re-examines British women’s writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces.
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Histories of nursing practice
Contains eleven landmark essays that explore the significance and meaning of nursing, with a wide geographic range that expands the existing literature on nursing work
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Swoon
Swoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swooning’s rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. It offers an exciting new approach the history of the body alongside the history of literary response.
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Benjamin's arcades
The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin’s unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin’s Arcades: an unGuided Tour looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies, metapho...
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The paradox of body, building and motion in seventeenth-century england
Examines how seventeenth-century English architectural theorists and designers rethought the domestic built environment.
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No more giants
This book is a history of J. M. Richards’ career as editor of The Architectural Review and as an architectural critic and writer from 1933-73. The book explores Richards’ ideas about anonymity, modernism and public participation in architecture.
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Shakespeare for the wiser sort
Steve Sohmer’s book solves literally dozens of Shakespeare’s riddles which have never been solved before. Scholars, editors of the plays, and theatre enthusiasts will find much in these pages to inform, surprise and delight them.
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Male witches in early modern europe
This is the first ever full book on the subject of male witches addressing incidents of witch-hunting in both Britain and Europe.Uses feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. Advances a more bal. Critiques historians’ assumptions about witch-h...
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Irish protestant identities
A major multi-disciplinary portrayal and analysis of the often overlooked Protestant tradition in Ireland.
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American literature and irish culture, 1910–55
This book discusses how and why American modernist writers turned to Ireland at various stages during their careers. By placing events such as the Celtic Revival and the Easter Rising at the centre of the discussion, it shows how Irishness became a cultural determinant in the work of American mod...
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Chinua achebe
A major new study of Africa’s most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe’s work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker
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The new avengers
A study of the rape-revenge film, in which Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the post-1970 period. Arguing that rape-revenge is be...
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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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Black middle-class britannia
This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle class cultural consumption, incorporating insights from critical race theory and cultural sociology.
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Imagining women readers, 1789–1820
From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen, this book charts the rise of a self-regulating reader, who possesses both moral and cultural authority.
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Critical theory and feeling
This book examines the vital role of affect and feeling within the work of the early Frankfurt School. The author investigates a range of concepts – including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects, and mimesis – and argues that a contemporary reading of critical theory needs to accommodate an...
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Dangerous amusements
Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography, Dangerous amusements explores the beginnings of a distinct youth culture in the streets and neighbourhood spaces of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain.
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Drafting the irish free state constitution
This book provides an account of the drafting of the Irish Free Constitution of 1922, analysing the document in its historical context and exploring the reasons for its lack of success
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The poems of elizabeth siddal in context
Every Siddal poem is close read alongside works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Tennyson and Keats and with reference to prevailing cultural, political and religious contexts to give the most comprehensive analysis yet of this enigmatic, previously undervalued poetic voice.
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British civilian internees in germany
This book tells the forgotten story of four to five thousand British civilians who were interned at the Ruhleben camp near Berlin during the First World War. Together they formed a unique community in the heart of enemy territory, based on a diverse and extremely rich culture of enduring signific...
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Electoral competition in ireland since 1987
This major new account of the politics of modern Ireland offers a rigorous analysis of the forces which shaped both how the Irish state governed itself from the period since 1987 and how it lost its economic sovereignty in 2010.
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Ignorance
An excellent theoretical work that investigates ignorance in literature.
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The northern ireland troubles in britain
This book investigates the history of responses to, engagements with and memories of the Northern Irish conflict in Britain, exploring the lessons to be learned from post-conflict efforts to 'deal with the past' in Northern Ireland and providing a starting point for wider academic and public deba...
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Dante and the victorians
Groundbreaking, erudite and interdisciplinary volume on the influence of Dante throughout the Victorian period
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Political passions
Ideas about marriage, gender and the family were central to political debate in late Stuart England. Newly available in paperback, this book shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women, parents and children, public and private were defined and ...
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The cinema of cecilia bartolomé
Fusing a distinctive feminist aesthetics with a startling vision of twentieth-century Spain, the work of Cecilia Bartolomé casts a new light on the histories of both Spanish national film, and transnational women’s cinema. This book places Bartolomé among other key auteurs of national Spanish, an...
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The end of populism
This book proposes concrete solutions to confront the populist wave and the rise of “illiberal democracy.” The author demonstrates that democracy is not a “demand side” phenomenon, but rather a “supply side” phenomenon and formulates twenty original and bold proposals to fight populism and defend...
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