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The power of pragmatism
Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research.
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The reign of Edward II, 1307–27
This volume presents a concise history of the reign of Edward II, as well as essential sources in translation that allow for comparison of the scattered evidence available from this significant period in English history.
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Social change and everyday life in Ireland, 1850–1922
This book covers the social and economic history of Ireland from the aftermath of the famine to the years leading up to Home Rule. It combines synthesis with new research into poverty, public health, religion and marginalisation, reproducing the voices and stories of the people and questioning mu...
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John Donne's Performances
A comparative reading of Donne's poetry and prose, which eschews questions of personal or religious sincerity in order to recreate an image of John Donne as a man of many performances
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In the club
A comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia
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New Soviet Man
Examines the ‘New Soviet Man’ not only as an ideal of masculinity presented to Soviet cinemagoers, but also, precisely, as a man in his specific, and hotly debated social, cultural and political context
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Reanimating grief
This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning. Combining expressive and analytical writing, it offers a critical poetics of loss to show how ghosts, scenes of mourning, memories of reading or viewing, and acoustic fragments, all...
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Leaving the field
Through accounts of ethnographers’ various exits from the field, this book draws attention to an overlooked but essential part of the research process, and contributes to more general discussions of ethnography.
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Dictionary of British Politics
This book provides the reader with short, authoritative explanations and definitions of key terms, institutions, offices of state, political events, processes and policies as well as biographies of well known politicians, political thinkers, movements and theorists. It is the ideal instant refere...
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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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Catherine Breillat
The first full-length monograph in English devoted to one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors in contemporary cinema
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Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
This collection of six new essays by scholars from the disciplines of French, English literature, history, cultural criticism, feminist theory and philosophy makes a valuable contribution to the task of re-reading and reassessing this enormously influential text.
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Personal narratives of Irish and Scottish migration, 1921–65
Drawing predominantly on personal narratives, this book compares Irish and Scottish migration to North America and Australasia between 1921 and 1965.
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R. K. Narayan
A comprehensive study of Narayan’s fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels
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The annals of Lampert of Hersfeld
Lampert is widely regarded as 'the unrivalled master among medieval historians' and 'a superb story-teller', noted for his vivid characterisation and narrative. This English translation of his work is of the greatest value to teachers and students of medieval history and also of interest to the g...
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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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Absolutely postcolonial
Provides an incisive critique of well-established positions in postcolonial theory and a dramatic expansion in the range of interpretative tools available
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Democratising Conservative leadership selection
This book looks at how the election of Conservative Party leaders has become more democratic over the last fifty years and how that has affected the Party and the nature of its leadership.
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Women, workplace protest and political identity in England, 1968–85
This book revisits women’s workplace protest from an historical perspective to deliver a new account of working-class women’s political identity in England between 1968 and 1985.
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Popular reading in English c. 1400–1600
Lectures and research students in cultural history, medieval and early modern studies and literary studies
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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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Labour, the state, social movements and the challenge of neo-liberal globalisation
This book includes a very strong collection of original case studies addressing two key themes of the impact of neo-liberalism on union-state relations, and new patterns of resistance in strategic national and international alliances of unions with other social movements.
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From silent screen to multi-screen
The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening – the Lumière Brothers’ showing of their Cinématographe show at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 – through to the developmen...
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Knowledge, democracy and action
This book provides evidence from 20 case studies around the world on the power and potential of community and higher education based scholars and activists working together in the co-creation of transformative knowledge. The book draws in the experience and insights of 37 scholars and practitione...
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German politics today
This revised and updated edition of German politics today provides students with a comprehensive study of the modern German political system, set in the context of its historical development, including the reunification of Germany and the important developments which have taken place since the fo...
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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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Nationalising Femininity
Case studies examine competing definitions of feminism, contoured by The Second World War, circulating in cinema, women's magazines, social policies, government pamphlets, fashion, and broadcasting
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Rhetorics of empire
An investigation of the place of imperialist rhetoric in the history of twentieth century empires. Issues examined include discourses of imperialist modernization, the language of colonial ‘civilizing’, and the rhetorical justifications advanced for violent colonial practices.
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Fighting fascism: the British Left and the rise of fascism, 1919–39
A new work that looks at the struggle against fascism in Britain between the wars, argues that the British left have been overlooked in studies of anti-fascism, and maintains that the Labour Party, the Communist Party and other left-wing currents developed sophisticated analyses of fascism on a p...
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Mobilising Classics
Revisiting classic texts by writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, James Connolly and Paulo Freire, this book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction between radical ideas and political action in Ireland.
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James Baldwin Review
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an ...
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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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Tuairim, intellectual debate and policy formulation: Rethinking Ireland, 1954–75
Explores how from its formation in 1954 the intellectual movement Tuairim (‘opinion’ in Irish) was at the vanguard of the challenge to orthodoxy and conservatism.
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Cultural value in twenty-first-century England
Examines Shakespeare’s role in contemporary culture
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A theory of the super soldier
Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality.
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Unfinished business
This book traces the political development of 'dissident' Irish republicanism from the beginnings of the peace process. Based on extensive interviews with activists, it offers an insight into the ideology and motivation of a wide range of radical republican groups and analyses how serious a chall...
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European Empires and the People
The first book to survey, in comparative form, the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries. It provides fascinating parallel studies of France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, examining the media and the content through which events in colonial...
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The political theory of the Irish Constitution
Considers Irish constitutional law and the Irish constitutional tradition from the perspective of republican theory.
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Geoffrey Hill's later work
An exploration of the later work of Geoffrey Hill, often described as ‘the greatest living poet’ in his lifetime. This book reads, interprets, evaluates, and sets in context the work of Hill’s prolific later period from 1996 to 2016, the year of his death.
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Claire Denis
This is the first book on the celebrated films of director Claire Denis ('Chocolat', 'Beau Travail', 'Trouble Every Day'), one of the most remarkable filmmakers to come to prominence in the last 20 years. An essential read for students and specialists in contemporary French cinema.
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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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Leicester and the court
A collection of sixteen essays by Simon Adams on Elizabethan history, centring around Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
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The new treason of the intellectuals
Drawing on Julian Benda's famous Treason of the Intellectuals, this book exposes the damaging impact of market-driven ideology on the institution of the University, and calls for a reassertion of the values of knowledge-seeking, democracy and justice.
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Holy motherhood
Brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry. Focuses on miniatures of the birth of the Virgin and the mothers of the Holy Kinship in Books of Hours made for aristocratic women in relation to the dynastic importance of heirs and the material cultu...
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La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
The Spanish novella La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades was published anonymously in Alcalá de Henares, Burgos and Antwerp in 1554. It is most famous as the book establishing the style of the picaresque satirical novel.
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Instead of modernity
At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with “modernity” that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies.
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Reconsidering Gallipoli
The British cultural history of the Gallipoli campaign has been overlooked until now – this is a significant book as it offers the first real opportunity for this important campaign to be included in undergraduate courses on WWI. The commemoration of war is a particularly vibrant area of study – ...
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Creating God
This book uses history and archaeology to examine the origins of major monotheistic religions: describing the contexts of times, places and societies where Mormonism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism began. It strips away myths and later traditions to provide a secular account of h...
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Making contemporary theatre
Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. The book opens with an introductory chapter which contextualises recent trends in approaches to theatre-making. In the ensuing eleven chapters, eleven different writer-observe...
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Colonial India and the making of Empire cinema
This book examines the empire cinema made in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s.. It shows how the empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized people.. Unique approach t...
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Writing local history
This book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first century. It looks also at how local history is related to archaeology, landscape, and family history.
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The Munich Crisis, politics and the people
Bringing together leading historians, this volume offers a vital and timely reassessment of Munich Crisis of 1938 from the point of view of the politicians, the people, and public opinion. It takes into account the profound social, cultural, and psychological effects of the crisis, hitherto negle...
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Staging art and Chineseness
Questioning what the term ‘Chinese art’ means in the era of global art, this book situates Chinese contemporary art in the matrix of global expositions and political transnationalisms. Its case studies explore the changing political concept of Chineseness by examining performative, body-oriented ...
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Street theatre and the production of postindustrial space
Working memories explores how street theatre transforms industrial space into postindustrial space.
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Colonial naval culture and British imperialism, 1922–67
Naval forces from fifteen colonial territories fought for the British Empire during the Second World War, providing an important new lens for understanding imperial power and colonial relations on the eve of decolonisation.
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Adapting philosophy
Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position.
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Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750–2015
Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions.
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Domestic life and domestic tragedy in early modern England
This book considers a range of printed and documentary evidence, the majority previously unpublished, for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households; and it then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domest...
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Rethinking the South English Legendaries
Rethinking the South English legendaries offers theoretically fresh approaches to the major vernacular collection of saints' lives in the English Middle Ages, combining leading scholars and new voices in the field. The volume creates a new platform for thinking about this richly dynamic but so fa...
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Italian fascism and anti-fascism
A unique work that collections, for the first time, a wide variety of materials on both Italian fascism and antifascism.
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Assembling cultures
Assembling cultures charts the development of workplace activism in the British motor industry between 1945 and 1982.
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Sodomy in early modern Europe
This fascinating collection of essays reflects closely the main areas of debate within gay historiography. For the last twenty years scholars have argued over the nature of early modern sodomy, responding in a number of different and contradictory ways. Questions addressed in the book include: wa...
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1820
Integrating in detail the experiences of both Britain and Ireland, 1820 provides a compelling narrative and analysis of the United Kingdom in a year of European revolution. It charts the events and forces that tested the government almost to its limits, and the processes and mechanisms through wh...
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Gothic kinship
Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family
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Critical theory and social pathology
Axel Honneth’s critical theory of recognition has failed the Frankfurt School. A new social-theoretical foundation is urgently needed. As this book argues, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm are crucial allies in this task.
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Modern French Visual Theory
Offers approachable, clear and original accounts of French thinkers who specialise in visual theory, with connections explained and explicated between chapters; looks at those thinkers who have been neglected in the Anglo-American world thereby expanding and diversifying the perception that reade...
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Ephemeral city
Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance
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The 1922 Committee
The 1922 Committee is seen as the kingmaker in Conservative politics. This book provides a comprehensive account of its history, structure and influence.
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Classical Hollywood cinema
A focused and well-written study of classic Hollywood films which zeroes in on close analysis.
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History and politics in late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe
This is the first English translation of two chronicles of long-acknowledged importance to European history in the period c.850-c.950. This period, which is widely taught in European and North American universities, saw the collapse of the Carolingian Empire and the rise in Germany of the ‘First...
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Refugee women in Britain and France
This is an accessible and readable synthesis of all available knowledge about refugee women in Britain and France, which offers a unique comparative perspective.
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The IRA 1956–69
An in depth study of the IRA in the years leading up to the conflict that broke out in 1969. This book explores the internal divisions that existed within the IRA and Sinn Fein in this period.
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Global politics in the information age
Global Politics in the Information Age presents a provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet.
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The English diaspora in North America
This deeply researched new book questions this assumption. It shows that English associations once were widespread, taking hold in colonial America, spreading to Canada and then encompassing all of the empire.
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Critical race theory and inequality in the labour market
This book employs critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework to unveil how racial stratification shapes the socioeconomic outcomes and racial inequality in the labour market. The pages guide students interested in CRT and investigating racism, discrimination and inequality.
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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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The Library and archive collections of the University of Aberdeen
A lavishly illustrated, expertly written and perspicaciously edited volume that showcases one of the oldest continually-evolving academic library collections of the Anglophone world. From papyri to modern first editions, Renaissance portraits to C20th abstracts, this book will be a benchmark in ...
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French Reflections in the Shakespearean Tragic
Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qualities (such as nostalgia, futility and heroism) with reference to specific French texts and contexts
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Alejandro Amenábar
Known for his spectacular imagery, memorable soundtracks and challenging subject matter, Alejandro Amenábar makes a serious and socially aware ‘middlebrow’ cinema designed for global audiences. This is the first full-length study in English of the director's shorts and feature films, including Ab...
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Salvage ethnography in the financial sector
A historical ethnography of banking practices during the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland. Provides insight into the 2008 economic crisis through review of the role of national identities, different styles and ethos of business, tension and unrest prevalent during the merger, and implicatio...
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Falling from grace
This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls’ Revolt of...
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The entangled city
This book tells the story of the ‘world of crime’ in São Paulo. In so doing, it presents a new framework to understand urban conflict in many other contexts.
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On the uses of history in recent Irish writing
Drawing on recent debates in Irish literary and cultural criticism, the study of cultural memory, as well as on radical models of time and history, this book explores the varied, creative, and often critically challenging forms of rewriting Ireland's troubled past in contemporary prose, drama an...
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The Women's Suffrage movement
Available in paperback for the first time, this important collection of essays illustrates the complexity, richness and diversity of the suffrage movement.Combining historical reappraisal with lively accounts of the culture of the women’s suffrage movement, this volume offers a unique focus. It i...
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The law of the sea
The law of the sea provides an up to date and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the subject. Based on extensive research, it combines clarity of expression with depth of analysis.
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Labour, state and society in rural India
Drawing on fieldwork in rural South India over more than a decade, the book uses a ‘class-relational’ approach that focuses on ‘the poor’s’ iniquitous relations with others.
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Killing Men & Dying Women
This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-wo...
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The hippie trail
Tracing the history of the Hippie Trail and those who followed it, this book explores the motivations and experiences of these young travellers, mapping their everyday interactions with locals and the joys and hardships of independent budget travel.
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The EU and its neighbours
The book argues that what is often considered a fundamental dilemma of EU foreign policy - a choice between the EU’s values and its quest for security - misrepresents a much more complex reality in which values and security interplay to shape the European Neighborhood Policy.
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Shakespeare the Reviser
The book examines the distinction between revision and rewriting in Early New English literature, analysing over 50 poems and plays from the sixteenth to seventeenth century. Focusing on A Lover’s Complaint, Double Falsehood, and adaptations of Richard II and The Duchess of Malfi, it explores how...
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