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The British left and the defence economy
This book charts the dispute over defence spending between the left and business, government and the trade unions between 1970 and 1983. Whereas the left blamed Britain’s postwar economic decline on its burdensome military commitments, successive governments used defence was a form of economic st...
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Religion and life cycles in early modern England
This innovative, interdisciplinary collection addresses religion and the life course in England c. 1550–1800. Considering Catholic, Protestant and Jewish experiences of biological, social and religious life stages, it suggests new ways of framing the multiple, overlapping life cycles that early m...
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A writer's guide to Ancient Rome
For writers of Roman historical fiction: a basic guide to family life, food & clothing, housing & travel, law & order, economics, religion, and entertainment.
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American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr
Covers a crucial two decades in American history, when the links between Hollywood and Washington DC were at their strongest.. The period is 'book-ended' by the mighty political and cinematic figures of Reagan and Clinton.. Covers a period in which movies have become targets of political rhetoric...
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Curbing the spread of nuclear weapons
With the 2005 review conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the background, this book puts into a measured context alarms about the further spread of nuclear weapons to 'rogue states' and elsewhere.
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Medieval literary voices
Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices evoke voices lurking beyond the text – the absent authorial voice, the traces of scribal voices and the aural soundscape of the uttered text – and ho...
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Doctor Who – New Dawn
Analysing Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Who as a regendered, inclusive brand, this book features original interviews with cast/crew. It offers in-depth analysis of recent episodes and examines fans’ reactions to the era, exploring how the experience economy displaced Who’s public-se...
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Death in modern theatre
This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged.
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Literature, theology and feminism
Newly available in paperback, this book offers an authoritative overview of the broad and complex terrain of feminist theorising concerning the relationship between literature and theology as it has developed over the past several decades. It provides the first comprehensive evaluation of the sig...
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Surrealist women's writing
Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity, ot...
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Thomas of Woodstock
This anonymous manuscript play has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare’s Richard II. This edition, which thoroughly re-examines the text, situates the play within its historical and political context, relating it to the genre of chronicle drama t...
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The politics of Jean Genet's late theatre
Jean Genet and the politics of theatre is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s. The book's innovative approach departs significantly from existing scholarship on Genet. Where scholars ha...
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The daring muse of the early Stuart funeral elegy
A broad reading of the period’s rich trove of funeral elegies, in both manuscript and print, which daringly use individual deaths as opportunities for ethical reflection, political comment, and even satire.
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Forever fluid
Forever Fluid is the first English commentary on Luce Irigaray’s important text, Elemental Passions. It provides a lively alternative to the binary logic that runs through western culture, showing how sexual difference enables appreciation of difference of all kinds
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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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Lancashire
If England was 'the first industrial nation', Lancashire was emphatically the first industrial county the first to develop, over a wide area, the combination of steam-powered factory industry and urban sprawl which says 'Industrial Revolution' to most people. It was also one the first fully indu...
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Youth policy, civil society and the modern Irish state
In the post-Ryan Report (2009) on child abuse in the modern state, this book is the first study to document and analyse the issues in a frank exposé that challenges many of the myths about children and young people in Ireland.
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The child in Spanish cinema
The first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema
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Comic Spenser
Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie Queene since its first publication. As well as bringing a comic perspective to new areas of the poem, this study explores profound connections between humour, faith, and allegory.
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The Black Death
This book surveys contemporary responses to the Black Death. The sources illustrate the fear that spread with the disease and the diverse ways that such terror influenced social behaviour.
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The secret life of romantic comedy
The secret life of romantic comedy offers a fresh approach to one of the most popular Hollywood genres in recent years and analyses the cultural impact of generic conventions in the construction of issues of intimacy and sexuality.
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Template for peace
This book examines the creation and collapse of the first power-sharing administration in Northern Ireland, and British government policy during the period 1972–75. It also analyses the relationship between the British and Irish states during the 1972–75 period.
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Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s
Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.
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Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish was the most extraordinary seventeenth-century Englishwoman, refusing to be silent when exiled by the Crowmellian regime, she fought to make her voice heard through her fascinating publications.
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Workers and politics in occupied Austria, 1945–55
This book examines the way in which Austria escaped absorption into the Soviet Bloc after 1945 and the impact this had on its domestic politics.
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Changing anarchism
Assesses the relevance of anarchism to understanding debates about globalisation and the nature of contemporary protest.
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Acceptable words
'Acceptable words' comprises a series of highly individual essays covering the whole of Geoffrey Hill's poetry to date, including the remarkable late flowering of the years since 1996. The essays offer detailed readings of many poems whilst making many - often surprising - associations with histo...
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Before Gender
This ground-breaking book rewrites trans history, presenting the stories of thirty extraordinary trans people who lived between 1850 and 1950. Featuring kids, activists, workers and athletes, it reveals the reality of trans lives in an era before the concept of gender became an everyday term.
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Towns in medieval England
Assembles a diverse range of texts to encourage and facilitate the study of medieval towns – a fresh incentive following the collapse of the city-based Roman Empire, shaped by the cultural and commercial currents of the time.
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Downward spiral
This book draws on the author's expertise as a KC and original interviews with political insiders to tell the story of declining ethical standards during the government of Boris Johnson and propose concrete reforms.
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The new woman
Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional representations with the lived experience of the new ...
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The British question
This book is designed as both a framework text – setting out concepts by which to understand the British question - and a synthetic text – providing a digest of significant academic work on historical, conceptual and political matters relevant to that question.
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Robert Bresson
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his thirteen feature-length films but also his litt...
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Inside Accounts, Volume II
Focusing on the peace process, these two volumes includes seventeen interviews from high-ranking civil servants and political leaders in the Irish Government and takes the reader inside the negotiating room to experience the efforts, tensions and actions that led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998
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Staging the revolution
Seeks to reassess the dramatic output of the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration; a period that has often been marginalised by specialists of both Renaissance and Restoration drama.
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Colour
Accessible and inventive in its approach, Colour is the first monograph to deal with the close criticism of film colour across decades and countries.
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Citizen convicts
The first comprehensive study of prisoners and the right to vote
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Confiscating the common good
Challenging the subject’s current interpretation, this microhistorical study traces the social and civic dynamics of the French Revolution’s religious politics within five small towns.
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Dr Faustus 1616
A new scholarly edition of Marlowe’s most famous play which provides a facsimile of the 1616 text from the only surviving copy, and an introductory discussion of authorship, staging revisions and publication. The printer is identified for the first time.
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Oil and the political economy in the Middle East
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle East political economy in response to the oil price decline in 2014. Based on a heuristic framework inspired by rentierism, the volume contains original studies on Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the Un...
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The stomach for fighting
Extensively researched from a wide range of sources so that theoretical concepts are illuminated with the men’s own accounts of lived experience.
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Tuning in to the neo-avant-garde
This collection offers the first in-depth study of the radio medium’s significance as a site of artistic experimentation for the literary neo-avant-garde in the postwar era. It addresses institutional and contextual aspects of audio drama, as well as intermedial and material issues alongside ideo...
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Political ideology today
Examines the tenets of liberalism, socialism, conservatism, Marxism, anarchism, and fascism.
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US elections today (2nd edn)
This book gives a thorough account of the US electoral process at all levels and in all branches of American government.
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The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture
This book places us at the heart of medieval religious life, standing inside the church with the medieval laity in order to ask what it meant to them and why. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it examines the interplay of vernacular literature, ritual and ma...
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The reality of film
In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of rea...
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The life–cycle in Western Europe, c.1300–c.1500
This is the first book to draw together the rich and growing literature on the life cycle in Western Europe, c.1300-c.1500. In discussing life’s stages, from birth to death, the study explores attitudes towards ageing, rites of passage, and the influence played by gender, class and regional locat...
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Volpone
This edition contains in distilled form the insight and learning found in the fuller Revels critical editions, but with less of the learning apparatus that is appropriate to a critical edition. Compact and up to date introduction and commentary. The price and format are designed to be competitive...
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Divergent paths
Documents for the first time a representative sample of Irish immigrant families and uses the techniques of family and digital history to explore their long-term fate.
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Bulmer Hobson and the Nationalist movement in twentieth-century Ireland
This book examines Bulmer Hobson (1883-1969) nationalist career in the period 1900-16, as well as his lesser-known activities in the years after the rebellion.
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Through the fiction of Phebe Gibbes (1764–90)
Centralizing the prolific English novelist, Phebe Gibbes, in a lineage of women writers of the revolutionary period, this study traces Gibbes’ evolution from satire to irony through detailed discussion of five novels representing women’s struggle for agency in the context of a shifting British pa...
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Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar
This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past.
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Connecting sounds
An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores the doing and meanings of music, as well as its interface with economic, political and wider social structures.
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Fighters across frontiers
This landmark book reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. Tens of thousands of fighters, including communists, Jews and POWs, joined networks across Europe, greatly a...
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Law, history, colonialism
Drawing on the latest contemporary research from an internationally acclaimed group of scholars, Law, history, colonialism brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in a singular exploration of imperialism.In fresh, innovative essays from a range of disciplinary ba...
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Cheap Street
From around 1850, London’s street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociability. Cheap Street is the first major study of this subject, analysing the street markets as a component of London’s lively informal economy, and provid...
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Fight back
Fight back examines the different ways punk – as a youth/subculture – may provide space for political expression and action.
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The break-up of Greater Britain
Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that unravelled during the decades of global decolonisation
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Public relations and the making of modern Britain
This book tells the story of how the unorthodox liberalism of the public sector svengali Stephen Tallents helped reshape public life for a new social, political and technological age.
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Anglo-Jewry since 1066
This is a study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry from medieval to the present. The particular focus is on the relationship between the local (in this case Hampshire), the national and the global.
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Worker protests in post-communist Romania and Ukraine
Studies why and how successful forms of workers’ interest representation could emerge in a hostile, post-communist context
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Irish Catholic identities
Explores the historical developments that shaped Irish identity and linked it so closely to Catholicism
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Catholic communities in Protestant states
This study compares the position of Catholic minorities in England and the Dutch Republic, looking beyond the tales of persecution that have dominated traditional historiography, focusing on the realities of Catholic existence.
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The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America
This volume in the Issues in Historiography series examines the changing scholarly debate on individuals and events in African American history from the 1890s to the present. It highlights how over time the work of scholars has reflected both advances in academic understanding and wider developme...
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Thierry and Theodoret
This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher, Massinger, and Field's Thierry and Theodoret, with an introduction that reassesses sources (including Shakespeare) and discusses the authorship and reception of this captivating play, pointing the way for future study,...
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Cinema, democracy and perfectionism
Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life.
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Management and gender in higher education
A definitive examination of higher education in Ireland
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Ideal homes
Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the suburban communities that emerged in Britain after the First World War. It explores how new class and gender identities were forged through the architecture and decoration of the home. This edition includes a chapter on researching the hi...
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Reassessing 1970s Britain
This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century.
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Conrad's Marlow
Conrad’s Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad’s most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator, a biographer or an autobiographical screen, a messenger or an interpreter, a bearer of truth or a misguided liar?
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Manchester Cathedral
This is the first comprehensive study of Manchester Cathedral. Founded in 1421 by charter of Henry V, the Collegiate Church of Manchester, as it then was, is of outstanding historical and architectural importance. In this highly-illustrated book, a team of experts reconstructs its past, offering ...
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Bedsit land
This is the first in-depth account of the band Soft Cell. Written by a leading music journalist and based on extensive interviews, it traces the band’s remarkably varied roots, from British seaside entertainments and Northern Soul nights to art school experimentation and New York glamour.
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Tea on the terrace
A history of travel, tourism, and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace examines what Egyptologists did between home and the field site and how their activities in hotels and on dahabeahs impacted the development of the discipline at the turn of the twentieth century.
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The War on the Uyghurs
This is the first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes. Revealing how China has used the US-led War on Terror as cover for its brutal suppression of the Uyghur people, it provides a lucid and far-reaching analysis of a cultural genocide, while allowing the voices ...
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Reclaiming migration
Reclaiming migration assesses the EU’s migration policies based on a counter-archive of migratory testimonies, co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016. It highlights the flawed assumptions on which policies are based and documents the precarities produced...
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Livingstone's 'lives'
Explores how Livingstone has been represented in diverse ways and put to work in a variety of socio-political contexts.
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François Ozon
This is the first study of the films of François Ozon, and places the precocious French auteur in a lucid critical framework, highlighting Ozon's importance for a thoroughly postmodern film-going generation.
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Has devolution worked?
Devolution to Scotland and Wales represented the most fundamental reform of the British state for almost a century. Ten years on, how successful has the reform been? Drawing on the views of citizens, elected representatives and interest groups in Scotland and Wales, this book provides an answer...
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My Voice: Chaim Ferster
Chaim’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. Chaim Ferster began life in Poland in 1922, survived several labour camps and Auschwitz in World War II, and went on to live in Manches...
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The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the e...
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The Irish Parliamentary Party at Westminster, 1900–18
Explains how the leadership of the IPP operated, taking the concepts of oligarchy and collegiate governance and applying them to the Home Rule case more comprehensively than ever before
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Politicising and gendering care for older people
This book offers a new critical framework for understanding the processes of politicising and gendering care for older people and their manifestations in different European contexts. It contributes to an in-depth comprehension of how it becomes an arena of political struggle and the object of pub...
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Ballads and songs of Peterloo
This is an edited anthology comprising more than seventy poems and songs written in immediate response to Peterloo in 1819. Mainly anonymous, these ballads appears either as broadsides or in the radical press and are collected together for the first time.
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Revolution remembered
This book examines ‘seditious memories’ in the Restoration period. It reveals the social depth of opposition to the Stuarts and the Church of England, and asks why people were prepared to take the risk of voicing their resistance in public.
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Late Merovingian France
This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships.
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Mummies, magic and medicine in ancient Egypt
This volume presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medicine. Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork, new research on human remains, reassessments of ancient texts and modern experimental archaeology, it seeks to...
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The Philip Larkin I knew
The Philip Larkin I Knew traces the author's close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University of Hull.
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The gestures of participatory art
The study critically reclaims participatory art beyond its co-option as a fuzzword of neoliberal governance. It examines a range of artistic practices from community theatre, immersive performance and the visual arts in different sites around the world. It offers a refreshing theorisation of part...
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Celebrities, heroes and champions
Celebrities, heroes and champions examines the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act. Covering a range of political movements, it offers a unique perspective on contemporary political culture including the connections between popular po...
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Bob Crow: Socialist, leader, fighter
This is the first biography of Bob Crow, the best-known union leader of his generation. It is a sympathetic but critical account, written from a radical sociological perspective.
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