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‘red ellen’ wilkinson
Unearths new evidence to provide a richer understanding of the life of the Labour minister Ellen Wilkinson
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Watching the world
Watching the world extends the reach of documentary studies by investigating recent instances of screen documentary and the uses made of them by audiences
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Spectral dickens
Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character. By analyzing Dickens’ illustrated novels through a frame of ontologically haunted concepts like the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian Real, Bove’s work haunts the opposition between fictional character and...
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Terror
This book illuminates the role that images of terror haveplayed up to the present day. The author analyses visualstrategies, places them in their historical context, and answers pressingquestions around the ethical treatment of images of terrorism. It provides avital insight into our age old morb...
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Internal exile in fascist italy
This book is an accessible history of internal exile’s origins and practices under Fascism and of its representation in film, literature and memoir.
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Aid to armenia
This book critically examines the history of humanitarianism and intervention on behalf of Armenia and Armenians from the late nineteenth century to the post-Soviet era. Examining a diverse set of case studies, the contributors show how the case of Armenia informs histories of humanitarianism and...
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Working–class suburb
An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates. It will be of interest not only to historians but to anyone interested in housing, housing policy, and key issues in urban studies.
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Antonio and mellida
A new in paperback edition of this first play by John Marston to be performed by the revived Paul's Company in 1599. Fully annotated with critical introduction and full commentary.
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Writing power
This is a book about what it is like to live and work with ‘the canon’ and how this shapes the way we think about intellectuals now. In contemporary global academia, what does it mean to write ‘with’ the canon and what is at stake if you don’t, can’t, or won’t?
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Expatriate
Expatriate offers an in-depth study of the history and politics of the category expatriate. The book works across multiple sites to tell situated stories about the category’s (re)making, contestation and lived experience and shows that migration is a key terrain on which colonial power relations ...
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Filmmaking for fieldwork
The underlying principal of this handbook is to broaden the application of ethnographic filmmaking to suit a wide range of research areas and documentary expression, encompassing sensory, fictive, observational, participatory, reflexive, performative and immersive modes of storytelling.
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The victim in the irish criminal process
Concern for crime victims has been a growing political issue in improving the legitimacy and success of the criminal justice system through the rhetoric of rights. Since the 1970s there have been numerous reforms and policy documents produced to enhance victims’ satisfaction in the criminal justi...
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Grown but not made
The first detailed critical history of British Modernist sculpture’s interaction with modern biology.
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Transforming ireland
As Ireland’s economic boom grounds to a sudden halt, Transforming Ireland offers a diverse range of critical analyses of its legacies across different areas of Irish life – the media, racism, consumerism, sports, education, state surveillance and the pharmaceutical industry. The book also maps ou...
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Martial races
This book provides an exploration of how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas became linked as the British Empire’s fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourses of ‘martial races.’
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Class, work and whiteness
This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in ...
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The machinic city
The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. It analyses several case studies of performance art that foreground new modes of subjectivity emerging from hybrids of...
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Martial masculinities
This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society.
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Moving stories
This is a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family photographers and memoirists. Taken together, these stories enrich and complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth century British and Australian women’s history.
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A woman's place?
This book uncovers the contribution that homegrown women’s magazines made to shaping complex debates about the position of women in society in 1960s Ireland. Woman’s Way is explored alongside the lesser-known titles Woman’s View, Woman’s Choice, and Young Woman.
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Spenser and donne
This edited collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dichotomous view of these two major poets and to shift the critical conversation towards a more holistic, relational view of the two authors’ ...
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Productive failure
This monograph provides novel methods for writing transnational South Asian art history outside of genealogy.
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Candide en dannemarc, ou l’optimisme des honnêtes gens
French language edition of Candide in Denmark, the continuation of the adventures of Voltaire's famous creation, with introduction and notes in French.
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Building the french empire, 1600–1800
How did the French rule their colonial overseas possessions dispersed all over the world? This book focuses on local populations and workers in the colonies. Indigenous experts, slaves or indentured servants as well as French engineers and naval officers contributed to the building of the foundat...
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Scientific governance in britain, 1914–79
Examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain.
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Tolerance and diversity in ireland, north and south
Examines the treatment of cultural and religious diversity – indigenous and immigrant – on both sides of the Irish border to analyse the current state of tolerance and the kinds of policies that need to be developed to respect diversity
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Turkish immigration, art and narratives of home in france
Turkish immigration, art and narratives of home in France argues for a cultural, rather than a sociological or economic, approach to understanding how immigrants become part of their new country.
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Communism in britain, 1920–39
Based on extensive use of primary evidence, this book is a study of the British communist life between the Wars as it was experienced at the various phases of the life cycle.
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Theatre, activism, subjectivity
In modern times of political confusion, when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated by Right, this book stress the necessity of recovering the Leftist ethos of solidarity, social justice, and care for the commons.
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French colonial dakar
Chronicles the design of Dakar as a regional capital, and suggests a connection between the French colonial doctrines of assimilation and association and French colonial planning and architectural policies in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Civic identity and public space
A study of the long term historical background to the disputes over parades and related issues that remain central to conflict in Northern Ireland, linked to a review of current policy on the management of public space in the city and a discussion of options for the future.
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A brief history of thrift
This book explores ‘thrift’ through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, and via key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles, and Henry Thoreau.
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Representations of british motoring
It is a book that provides new insights into the established discourses of British motoring, exposing the importance of advertising campaigns and motoring journals and addressing issues prompted by new models, ownership and the motoring landscape.
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Sir gawain and the green knight
Dual text on facing pages, now revised and updated edition of this Middle English Arthurian romance. Critically acclaimed translation now in its twenty fifth year. Extensive notes, glossary and introduction.
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London presbyterians and the british revolutions, 1638–64
London presbyterians and the British revolutions is a case study in the politics of metropolitan religion and presbyterianism in the middle decades of the seventeenth-century.
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The labour movement in lebanon
Power on hold examines the course of the labour movement in Lebanon since independence in 1943, giving specific attention to the role of state incorporation in the preservation of the sectarian-liberal system.
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Chinoiserie
A critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness, and ornamental excesses
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My voice: marianne philipps
Marianne'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. Marianne Phillips began life in Berlin in 1924, came to England on the Kindertransport, and went on to run a dressmaking business an...
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Illegitimate power
Drawing on a wide rage of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crises in early modern England.
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Imagining armenia
This book examines how Armenia and Armenians were portrayed in Britain at a decisive moment in modern history, when diplomats, scholars and humanitarians engaged with the past, present and future of Armenia.
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Huerto cerrado by alfredo bryce echenique
Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking world.
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De stijl and dutch modernism
De Stijl was the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917 and is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. This book is the first to emphasize the local context of De Sti...
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Reconstructing women's wartime lives
Examines the effects of the Second World War on women's sense of themselves. Using oral history it explores the interaction between cultural representations of men and women in the war, and women's own narratives of their wartime lives.
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Non-western responses to terrorism
This book surveys how non-Western states have responded to the threats of domestic and international terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions.
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Britain and the formation of the gulf states
This book offers new insight into the end of the British Empire in the Middle East. It takes a fresh look at the relationship between Britain and the Gulf rulers at the height of the British Empire, and how its effects are still felt internationally today.
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Governing europe's neighbourhood
This volume introduces the concept of “external governance” to analyze the European Union’s relations with its new neighborhood following the EU’s 2004 enlargement.
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Conservative thinkers
This book outlines and evaluates the political thought of the Conservative Party through a detailed examination of its principal thinkers from Harold Macmillan to the present.
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Rebel by vocation
From 1940 to 1954, The Bell was notable as an outspoken liberal voice at a time of political and intellectual stagnation. While primarily a literary magazine, it is now mostly discussed in the context of its hard political criticism. Carson has unearthed a wealth of sources to put The Bell in its...
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The female sublime from milton to swinburne
This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender ...
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The bbc's 'irish troubles'
This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible, powerful and popular form of media: television.
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British politics in an age of reform
This work is a detailed examination of principal themes in the political history of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. It evaluates much recent research, links the politics of the elite with the politics of the people and seeks to explain significant developments with reference to both th...
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In strange countries: middle english literature and its afterlife
These essays by senior scholars in medieval studies celebrate the career of J.J. Anderson, editor, critic, and co-founder of the Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture series, who taught in medieval studies at the University of Manchester for forty years. The essays are rooted in medieval lit...
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A history of humanitarianism, 1755–1989
The book traces the history of international aid from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. The reconstruction of humanitarianism’s long pattern unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, t...
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Transnational solidarity
This book excavates forgotten histories of solidarity which were vital to radical political imagination during the long sixties. It decentres the conventional Western loci of this critical historical moment by instead foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-...
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Chocolate, women and empire
Provides an original and challenging perspective on the history of chocolate, questioning the romantic images of the commodity offered in marketing campaigns. It weaves together a variety of previously unexamined sources including oral histories of women workers, advertising material from the Row...
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New hollywood violence
'New Hollywood violence' is a groundbreaking collection of essays devoted to an interrogation of various aspects, dimensions and issues - historical, conceptual, empirical, aesthetic, cultural and ideological - relating to the depiction of violence in what has come to be known as New Hollywood fi...
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Formal matters
The essays in this collection explore the intersection between literary and material forms of writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history.
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The united states, the soviet union and the arab-israeli conflict, 1948–67
This book presents a comprehensive history of the modern Middle East and Arab-Israeli conflict through the Cold War, focusing on relations between the region and the two superpowers.
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Sarah kane in context
First collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in their field on one of the most controversial and influential dramatists who emerged during the ‘In-Yer Face’ generation of British dramatists in the 1990s. Essential, wide-ranging, European guide to Kane for students and scholars of T...
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From enlightenment to romanticism
Key text for OU course: From Enlightenment to Romanticism. Provides primary and secondary sources on industry and changing landscapes, new forms of knowledge, new conceptions of art and the artist, and the exotic and the Oriental. Each selection is accompanied by a detailed introduction explainin...
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The secret battle
This is a study of domestic life during the war, of what people on the home front did to support men at the front, and of how soldiers in trenches organised the routines of feeding, rest, warmth, washing, that ensured their survival.
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Eastward ho
Scholarly and detailed annotations. Provides a thorough sense of the plays background and content. Full and comprehensive introduction.
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Rethinking the university
Rethinking the university explores and develops key critical debates in the humanities (concerning, for example, postmodernism, New Historicism, political criticism, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity and deconstruction), in the context of the various crises widely felt to be facing academic i...
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The british musical film
"This book is to be recommended as a good, informative, broad-based survey, useful for students of film, media, drama and cultural studies who are looking for an entry into this broad genre and to use this text as a general resource."Christine Etherington-Wright, Studies in Musical Theatre"Mundy ...
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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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Women in italian renaissance art
This richly illustrated books tells the story of the different ways in which women were represented in Italian Renaissance painting.
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Science, race relations and resistance
This book offers a new account of the British Empire’s greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then as now, was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture.
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The making of thatcherism
An examination of the Conservative Party’s period in opposition between 1974 and 1979, focusing on policy development, which argues that the short term political context of the time best explains why Conservative policy did not change as much as might be expected, and draws wider conclusions abou...
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Love's cure, or the martial maid
A fully annotated critical edition of John Fletcher and Philip Massinger’s ground-breaking comedy Love’s Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615), a fascinating exploration of the journey of two transgender characters in an adverse heteronormative society. This Revels Plays edition offers a modernised te...
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Making of the gdr, 1945–53
The making of the GDR 1945-53 is a groundbreaking analysis of the Stalinisation of East Germany, focusing on the social roots of the emerging dictatorship and the aspirations of antifascists and Socialists manipulated and ultimately betrayed by Stalinism.
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Perspectives on contemporary printmaking
The anthology provides a critical topography of printmaking since the mid-1980s. Its texts, by well-known authors as well as ‘insiders’, span different formats and critical and theoretical approaches.
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Irish children and teenagers in a changing world
This book provides an engaging and informative insight into the experiences, dreams and hopes of children and teenagers in contemporary Ireland.
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It's a london thing
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London’s precious, embattled multiculture.
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The newspaper clipping
Examines knowledge production and its visual and material background, combining the perspectives of media history with art history and the history of science.
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The heat of beowulf
The heat of Beowulf reexamines the aesthetics of the longest surviving Old English poem through the poetics of twentieth-century poets Jack Spicer, arguing that the aesthetics of Beowulf entangle vulnerable human corporeality in the non-human world, rendering perceptible what otherwise remains in...
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Conflict, peace and mental health
What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book provides answers to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.
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Aspects of english protestantism c.1530–1700
During the sixteenth century, England underwent a religious revolution. This book examines the reverberations of this Protestant Reformation, which continued to be felt until at least the end of the seventeenth century. Brings together twelve essays by Nicholas Tyacke about English Protestantism,...
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What a waste
Documents how outsourcing has penetrated every part of the public sector, and balances critique with practical suggestions for policy reform
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Clanship to crofters' war
Charts the story of the people of the Scottish Highlands from medieval times to the great crofter's rebellion in the 1880s
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Queer beyond london
Looking beyond the London-centric narratives of British LGBTQ life, this exciting book explores the queer dimensions of four English cities – Manchester, Leeds, Plymouth and Brighton.
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The politics of old age
situates the discussion of older people's interests in the international context and outlines the findings of an Irish case study
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On the far western front
Discover a new front of the First World War: the battle for domination of South America.
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Recognition theory and contemporary french moral and political philosophy
Both pedagogical and critical, this collection outlines the current state of recognition theory, studies the influence of French theory upon its evolution, and uses French thought to identity aspects of the recognitive process which are often overlooked.
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My voice: danny herman
Danny'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. Danny Herman was born in East Prussia and escaped to England with his mother 3 days before war was declared in 1939. He moved to Manche...
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Edwin morgan
Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of modernity was the first book-length study of his work. Since the 1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body of writing...
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Climate change and the oil industry
Presents a detailed study of the climate strategies of ExxonMobil, Shell and Statoil.
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The looking machine
This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films.
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Modernism and empire
The first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire
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Novelle del novecento
The sixteen short stories in this anthology demonstrate the scope of the modern Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960. To this end, the collection contains writings by both established writers, such as moravia, Vittorini, Pavese and Pasolini, as well as by lesser-known figures such as Santucci ...
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The plantation of ulster
The first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field on a broad range of historical and literary topics redresses the previous coverage of the plantations, moving away from an exclusive colonial perspective, to includ...
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The cultural construction of the british world
The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial space.
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