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Eu enlargement, the clash of capitalisms and the european social dimension
Analyses the impact of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements upon the politics of European integration within EU employment and social policy
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Chaucer in context
Amongst the most written about works of English literature, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales still defy categorization, claims the author of this book. Was Chaucer a poet of profound religious piety or a sceptic who questioned all religious and moral certainties? Do his pilgrims reflect the society of ...
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Two lamentable tragedies
A photographic facsimile of the quarto held by the British Library, printed in 1601. The play combines a plot based on a real-life London murder case of 1594 with one deriving from an Italian tale of an evil father and his son.
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Ireland, india and empire
This book is offers a fresh perspective on the history of the end of Empire. Using the Irish and Indian independence movements as its focus, it details how each country’s nationalist agitators engaged with each other and exchanged ideas.
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Ireland, africa and the end of empire
In the twenty years after Ireland joined the UN in 1955, one subject dominated its fortunes: Africa. The first detailed study of Ireland’s relationship with that continent, this book documents its special place in Irish history.
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Political cartoons and the israeli-palestinian conflict
Provides readers with an engaging introduction to cartoon analysis and a novel insight into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Governing the military
Governing the military is an up-to-date study of key contemporary challenges to govern the military and the ongoing successes and failures by post-dictatorship civilians in Chile to reform national defence governance.
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Governing britain
A timely new book on how government operates – and the problems that can arise – by one of Britain’s foremost constitutional experts. The book assesses the key principles and relationships at the heart of the constitution and how they are shaping and being shaped by the political turmoil of recen...
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Men, ideas and tanks
Men, ideas and tanks reviews the development of British military ideas on armoured forces from 1903 to 1939.
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De-centering queer theory
This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.
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Off white
Off white centres the role of race and whiteness to rewrite the history of Central and Eastern Europe and illuminate the development, operation and enduring appeal of white nationalisms within racial capitalism.
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Troubles of the past?
This collection considers the increasingly central role that memory plays in determining contemporary politics and the future of Northern Irish society. Using an inter-disciplinary approach, it considers how competing narratives of the past are constructed, re-constructed, commemorated and then h...
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The value of a whale
This book shows that beyond the fossil fuel industry, it is the lesser-known but vastly more powerful world of asset managers and shadow banking which is inhibiting our ability to pursue climate and environmental justice. Those with the influence to effect global change increasingly see commodify...
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Missionary families
Presents an innovative argument for the significance of missionaries’ familial relations in the philosophy, conduct and outcomes of mission work during the nineteenth century.
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The social world of early modern westminster
This book is the first study to provide an integrated picture of Westminster during this crucial period in its history. It reveals the often problematic relations between the diverse groups of people who constituted local society – the Court, the aristocracy, the Abbey, the middling sort and the ...
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Radical democracy
Radical democracy is the first of its kind. It brings together leading scholars to discuss the theoretical and practical implications of the two dominant approaches to radical democracy: Deleuzian theories of abundance and Lacanian theories of lack.
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In the company of wolves
This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres.
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Devolution in greater manchester and liverpool city region
This is the first comprehensive account of the policies of the Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region combined authorities during the first terms of Mayors Burnham and Rotheram, from 2017–21.
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Race and the obama administration
Did African Americans benefit from the election of Barack Obama? This book explores Obama's successes and failures on race policies by comparing his record to those of previous presidents, and explains why black support of Obama remained strong throughout his presidency.
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Terry nation
The first academic study of the science fiction television of Terry Nation, inventor of the Daleks, and author of 'Survivors' and 'Blake's 7' - places his work in the context of its production, and contains sustained analysis of key programmes, as well as new interview material.
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Queer muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film
This book interrogates the depiction of same-sex desire in contemporary literature and film by artists of Muslim heritage. .
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Death and the crown
Looking at the royal rituals around the death of Louis XV and the accession of Louis XVI, this book sheds new light on the politics and culture of the period, offering original perspectives on court culture, the transition of power, the recall of the Paris parlement and the first year of Louis X...
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The senses in interior design
Interior design is all about the senses. This volume explores how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors from the late sixteenth century to today. It provides new insight on the significance of the senses in all aspects of interior design and ...
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The environmental turn in postwar sweden
This book tells the story of how modern environmentalism emerged at a remarkably early stage in postwar Sweden. It sheds new light on why Sweden took an early lead in global environmental politics and how the country came to host the first UN Conference on the Human Environment in 1972.
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Youth and sustainable peacebuilding
A critical analysis of how peacebuilding can become sustainable through transforming thinking about what youth participation and leadership entails.
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Literature and psychoanalysis
Students and lecturers in English and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature
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Mutualism and health care
Mutualism and health care presents the first comprehensive account of the establishment and operation of hospital contributory schemes and the organisation of voluntary hospitals in Britain before the creation of the NHS.
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Madness and marginality
Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya’s ‘white insane’ to focus not on the ‘great white hunters’ and heroic pioneer farmers but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around ...
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Law in popular belief
This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in contrast to the legal profession. It explores how myths are created about the law and how myths are created by the...
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The british presidency
Makes a compelling argument about the increrased importance of political leaders and the changing style of leadership in Britain and the US. Introduces new concepts and backs them up with a convincing argument about the existence of a British 'presidency'. Completely up-to-date - the first convin...
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The cromwellian protectorate
Examines the nature of the first regime ever to have effective control of the British Isles and the impact that it had on England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and on Britain’s international reputation. One of the few stuides to view the period as one of acheivement rather than merely a reactiona...
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Eva gore-booth
Academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students in Irish and British social and cultural history.
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Monarchy, religion and the state
Explores current religious features of the monarchy and the state that seem increasingly anachronistic in more secular and more religiously diverse societies.
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Understanding immigration in ireland
A sociological analysis of immigration in Ireland. It is the first major comprehensive study of labour and asylum immigration into Irish society
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French cinema in the 1970s
A new look at the debates which shook the world of French cinema in the aftermath of May 1968, and throughout the 1970s
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Rigged
Most people find it hard to define 'the economy' beyond saying it is 'to do with money'. Through ethnographic research in a city on the South coast of England, this book explores what 'the economy' means to people's lives and what goes through their minds when they hear politicians talking about it.
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On trial
The book explores the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger s...
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Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951
In this classic text, one of the leading academic historians of magic presents the first exploration of witchcraft in Britain in the centuries following the witch trials, from 1736 to 1951.
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Style and meaning
Approaches to the detailed analysis of film and related questions about interpretations and value are once again being widely debated in film studies. Style and meaning is the first edited collection for many years to focus on these matters. The essays - which include contributions by establ...
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The leibniz-clarke correspondence
n 1715 Leibniz wrote to his friend the Princess of Wales to warn her of the dangers Newton's philosophy posed for natural religion. Seizing this chance of initiating an exchange between the two greatest minds in Europe, the princess showed his letter to the eminent Newtonian scientist and natural...
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Graham swift
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Booker Prize-winning novelist Graham Swift. Detailed analysis of his work provides an informative, lucid and accessible insight into the writing of one of Britain's most significant contemporary authors.
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Fragmenting modernism
Fragmenting modernism' is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution.
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Regulatory quality in europe
This book focuses on the capacity of European governments and the EU institutions to deliver high quality regulation. Drawing on comprehensive research and an original survey, it shows how regulatory quality can be measured and appraised - thus appealing both to academics and to policy-makers inv...
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So exotic, so homemade
Students and lecturers in photography, art history, Englishness and documentary studies
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Immersion
Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed
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France, humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect
This book provides the first comprehensive account of France’s relationship to human protection since the 1980s by investigating the mutual impact interconnected yet distinct domestic and international norms of human protection have had on each other over time.
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The origins of the scottish reformation
This is the first synthetic narrative of the origins of the Scottish Reformation of 1560; the narrative covers the period 1525-60. It brings together religious history with the political history of Mary, Queen of Scots’ reign, paying particular attention to the role of warfare and violence. It is...
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Stories of women
Why is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a motherland? Stories of women is a pathbreaking study of the perenially fascinating relationship between foundational fictions of the nation and gendered images. The book focuses critically on postcolonial spaces ranging from West Africa...
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Architects of the resurrection
Seeking the creation of a one-party totalitarian state, Ailtirí na hAiséirghe was Ireland's leading fascist movement during the Second World War. Architects of the Resurrection reconstructs the hidden history of this pro-Axis organisation, and its ambitious plans to make Ireland the leading light...
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Art and human rights
Provides a deeply researched account of contemporary Asian art movements, focusing on the work of a select group of internationally renowned and politically engaged artists.
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Environmental politics in the european union
This book provides an introduction into the development, the making and the implementation of European Union environmental politics. It employs a clear and accessible analytical perspective based on the theoretical state-of-the-art of EU policy Studies
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Training minds for the war of ideas
Examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the ‘brains’ of the new electorate and create a counter-culture to what they saw as the intellectual hegemony of the Left.
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The stadium century
The stadium century investigates why and how French spectators attended major sporting events in such vast numbers through the twentieth century, demonstrating the associated connections between urbanism, politics and sport.
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The troublesome reign of john, king of england
A much needed, fully annotated and modernized text of a long neglected play used by Shakespeare as the principal basis of King John. Published anonymously in 1591, it can now be attributed definitively to Peele and ranks as the most important Elizabethan history play after Shakespeare and Marlowe...
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Long peace street
Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the city’s recent history, explaining how the present and future of the world’s rising superpower has been shaped by its tumultuous past, from the demise of the last imperial dynasty in 1912 ...
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Ireland and the european union
This book examines how Ireland’s relationship with the EU was affected by a succession of crises; the financial crisis, the migration crisis and the Brexit crisis, in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Bringing modernity home
Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period.
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Deirdre madden
This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland.
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Imperial steam
Imperial steam explores the early history of a steamship route which was at the heart of the functioning of the British Empire. More so than the practical changes wrought by steam, the book argues that the modernity associated with the steamship provided a powerful imaginative frame of reference ...
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British representations of the spanish civil war
Examines at the reception of the Spanish Civil War in British popular culture, and how supporters of both sides in Britain used the rhetoric and imagery of the conflict to bolster support for their respective causes in the arena of British public opinion
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The problem of literary value
This book addresses the vexed status of literary value, focusing on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, using Chaucer studies as a case in point. It explores how we may reconcile literary value’s inevitability with its uncertainties and complicities, seeking to forge a viable rationale...
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Conflict to peace
Examines how and why the Northern Ireland conflict was resolved from the perspective of the general public, using dozens of public opinion surveys collected since 1968
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The british political elite and europe, 1959-1984
This book is an historical examination of the impact short-term political expediency played in the positions adopted by members of Britain’s political elites in the debates over Europe. It advances the argument that many MPs failed to consider the long-term implications of membership.
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Sexual progressives
Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of Victorian Scotland. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, its arguments disrupt current understandings of progressi...
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Refashioning the renaissance
How did ordinary men and women dressinearly modernEurope? This book provides new perspectives on clothing and fashion history by investigating the consumption, material significance and cultural meaning of fashionable clothing and accessories among the ‘popular’ classes.
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China’s peaceful rise
Can China peacefully attain great power status in the twenty-first century? Adopting a constructivist approach, the book argues that China's prospects for achieving great power status peacefully depend more on Chinese and international perceptions of China's rise/development than on concrete meas...
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The second labour government
New and original assessment of the second Labour government 1929-31 with up to date analyses of its policies and politics.
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The social significance of dining out
The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England. It compares systematically popular practice in 1995 and 2015. Differences in taste and behaviour surrounding eating in restaurants and as guests of friends are put in the context of wider social and ...
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Gee vaucher
This book situates and critically assesses the substantial body of work created by Gee Vaucher within a lineage of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history, including radical art production of the 1970s, political protest and street art and punk design, as well as cultural, socio-economic,...
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Corruption in contemporary politics
The book provides an accessible account of the significance of political corruption, its causes, consequences and remedies.
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Remaking the urban
This book examines the intersections between post-apartheid urban transformation and the politics of heritage-making in divided cities, using the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa’s Eastern Cape as a case study. This author examines how the twin processes of memory-making and change have p...
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Italian futurism and the machine
The machine was a primary concern for the Italian futurists. A tool in the factory, it was also a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem and a symbol of past technologies. This groundbreaking book explores the culture of machines in Italian futurism after the First World War, taking in l...
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Open graves, open minds
Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change
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Maternal bodies in the visual arts
Analyses images of the maternal and pregnant body in historical art
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The politics today companion to west european politics
There is an urgent need for a book of this nature which provides students with all the essential information required and a full definition of terms. A perfect companion to European politics today, written by the same authors, this book presents past events, prominent personalities, important dat...
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Space and being in contemporary french cinema
This book brings together five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. It explores their unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profou...
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Evaluating parental power
When and for what reasons does parents’ power have legitimacy? How do we rationally justify such normative evaluations? A number of specific case studies are examined in detail and an argument is made for a pluralist approach both to the conceptualisation of power and to its normative evaluation.
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Debates on the holocaust
Analyses the development of history writing on the destruction of the European Jews from just before the end of the Second World War to the present day, and argues forcefully that history writing is as much about the present as it is the past.
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Emmanuel macron and the two years that changed france
This book looks at the period 2015–18 in French politics, which witnessed the emergence of a new political order centred on Emmanuel Macron. It asks whether modern political leadership is capable of restoring trust in political institutions and investigates the transformative nature of the Macron...
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Catholic police officers in northern ireland
Explores historically the problematic relationship between Catholics and the police in Northern Ireland. Using strong, empirical evidence from the frank, personal stories of Catholic police officers the study questions whether the PSNI is likely to succeed where the RUC failed in delivering poli...
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British culture after empire
This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of loc...
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The empire of nature
This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. In it, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters.
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Querido diego, te abraza quiela by elena poniatowska
A critical edition of a modern Mexican classic, Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, with notes, vocabulary, a critical introduction and temas de debate.
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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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French crime fiction and the second world war
By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war y...
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David bowie, enid blyton and the sun machine
A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton
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The pan-african pantheon
This book presents a series of sketches of lives, thought and impact of thirty-seven individuals in relation to Pan-Africanism. Offering overviews of movements, groups, and detailed biographies, the chapters provide insights into the individuals who have animated the 'Pan-African Pantheon'.
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Cricket and community in england
Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day is a path-breaking enquiry into the social history of the summer game.
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Introduction to english renaissance comedy
Introduction to English Renaissance comedy explores the interconnected themes of politics, magic and sex in a number of representative comedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It ranges across the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline periods, covering both public and private theatres, emphas...
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The politics of expansion
The book gives an original and accessible discussion of an era of educational expansion, exploring the transformation of Irish education in the 1960s and early 1970s. The work sheds new light on the crucial role of international organisations in stimulating change in Irish educational policy.
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Beyond the bbfc
This work explores the censorship of film at local level and charts the chronological development of local film censorship systems, mechanisms and apparatus. Using archival material from a range of different locations across the UK, a more nuanced and complex picture of local film censorship acti...
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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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