The cinema of Lucrecia Martel

Situates Martel's features and unstudied short films in relation to trends in recent national and international filmmaking.

Children’s rights in crisis

This book explores the intricacies of contemporary children's rights on a global scale, scrutinizing the challenges they face from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Rethinking Norman Italy

This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000–1200) honours the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been understood, addressing subjects across four key themes: historiographies, identitie...

Ottonian Germany

Translated in its entirety here for the first time, The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire.

The Open University

This historical perspective on The Open University, founded in 1969, frames its ethos (to be open to people, places, methods and ideas) within the traditions of correspondence courses, commercial television, adult education, the post-war social democratic settlement and the Cold War. A critical a...

Popular television drama

A collection of essays that examine landmark popular television drama from the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office'. Contributors focus on programmes across the range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama

Literature and psychoanalysis

Students and lecturers in English and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature

The debate on the French Revolution

This book surveys a cross-section of historians of the Revolution from the early nineteenth century right up to the present day. From liberals to conservatives and from Marxists to revisionists, this books focuses on major figures across the numerous schools of historical thought concerned with t...

Sanctuary cities and urban struggles

This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars to explore how urban social movements, localised practices of rights claiming, and diverse articulations of sanctuary are reshaping the governance of migration.

Identities, discourses and experiences

The 2005 rioting in France’s suburbs caught the world’s attention and exposed the limits of the Republic’s integration policies concerning its ‘immigrant-origin’ populations. This book focuses on one of these groups – the French-born descendants of North African immigrants.

Hand of the prince

This book enterprises a quest to crack open the secrets of diplomatic knowledge production by building and applying the tools to map, assess, and trace the impact of descriptions of international actors that inform policy.

A History of British Sports Medicine

A comprehensive history of the development of British sports medicine as a medical specialism, and of the changing biomedical understanding of the athlete - from normal healthy man, to supernormal hero or even physiological freak - from 1880 to the early twenty-first century.

In defence of councillors

By using qualitative research from a number of related projects, the book examines the roles, functions and responsibilities of councillors and the expectations placed upon them by citizens, communities and government.

Roger II and the creation of the Kingdom of Sicily

This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily.

The art of the observer

A personal perspective on documentary filmmaking, based on the author’s own experiences and reflections on the genre, with a particular emphasis on observational cinema. It includes both practical insights into filmmaking methods and discussions of the intellectual, ethical and emotional challeng...

Turning up the heat

The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change.

Photographic subjects

This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in fostering modes of imperial citizenship at royal celebrations in the East Indies during the reigns of Queens Wilhelmina (1898–1948) and Juliana (1948–80).

TV antiquity

This is the first comprehensive overview of Greek and Roman historical dramas on television. It traces the development of fictional representations of antiquity from the 1950s to the present, exploring how broader cultural, political and economic issues have influenced the representation of antiq...

Robert Guédiguian

Considers Guédiguian's career, both as a filmmaker and producer, as a valid response to a crisis in post-Communist Leftist political movements in France

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

Framing narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France, 1939–2009

Brings together an internationally distinguished group of contributors and offers an authoritative overview of criticism on war and occupation narratives in French, a redefinition of the canon of texts and films to be studied, and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of the work in this area.

Imperialism and the development myth

China and other Third World societies cannot 'catch up'. Much of the world’s work has moved to the poor countries, yet – through dominating critical aspects of labour process – a few rich, imperialist countries monopolise the benefits. China and the Third World will remain poor and the vast globa...

Occupational health and social estrangement in China

This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers.

Approaches to popular film

An invaluable introduction to popular film and the way in which it is studied, this book brings together the critical approaches and issues that have sought to define popular film from the 1950s to the present day.

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...

The Food Companions

The introduction of rationing ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and comme...

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.

From victory to Vichy

Explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans’ associations during the interwar years, the Union fédérale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC).

Popular television in authoritarian Europe

Brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two

Elizabeth Gaskell

This augmented edition of Patsy Stoneman’s pioneering Elizabeth Gaskell presents the original 1987 text unchanged (apart from bibliographical updating) together with an extensive new ‘Afterword’ surveying Gaskell criticism over the last twenty years.

Community and identity

This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a British fortress and ...

Kazuo Ishiguro

How Japanese is Ishiguro?What role does memory and unreliability play in his narratives?Why was The Unconsoled (1995) perceived to be such a radical break from the earlier novels?. The first complete study to consider all of Ishiguro's work from A pale view of the hills (1982) to When we were Orp...

No solution

No solution demonstrates the naivety of claims that a solution to the Northern Ireland conflict could have been imposed by the British state two decades before the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. While there is a tremendous volume of material written on the Northern Ireland conflict, areas remain whe...

Early medieval militarisation

This volume is the first to study the phenomenon of early medieval militarisation from a wide geographic and disciplinary perspective. It explores the impact of an enhanced role attributed to warfare and the military as characteristic features of a European world in the process of becoming medieval.

The Case of the Initial Letter

Tracing the dual alphabet from its intervention by Carolingian scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the Bauhaus printers, Edwards shows how Charles Dickens and other nineteenth century writers used the distinction between upper and lower case letters in unconventional ways and in the i...

The EU and crisis response

A state-of-the-art consideration of the European Union’s crisis response mechanisms based on comparative fieldwork in a number of cases.

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.

Negotiating nursing

The mobility of the Second World War, brought on by ‘technological advances in destructive capabilities’ needed new type of medical service. Success meant that expert care was needed near the frontline.

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.

Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820–1932

Provides a unique longitudinal study of women in colonial India, examining their life experiences and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over more than a century of British rule.

Balancing the self

Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume’s wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and profes...

Keeping the faith

This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s. Using fanzines, diaries, letters, and oral testimony it presents a vivid insight into the scene. I...

Africa 2.0

Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies – mobile calling and internet – were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of liberalisation and privatisation that needed to be ...

Thomas Hood and nineteenth-century poetry

This, the first modern critical study of a lyricist, humorist and social protest poet who was a household name throughout the Victorian period, explores the relationship between Thomas Hood’s playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary...

Screen borders

A visual cultural history of contemporary borders and border outlooks through a film and television tour of Europe. Screen borders explores what screen representations of European borders, with France as a starting point, reveals about popular and institutional outlooks on European borders.

The sound of difference

The sound of difference examines how diversity work takes shape in a cultural sector deeply implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism.

Democracy in Latin America

This book addresses the nature of "democracy" in contemporary Latin and Central America. It offers insight into the processes and institutions of the different types of political systems and the challenges to them from the Left and popular movements. Lievesley questions how embedded democracy is ...

Raoul Wallenberg

This book tells the story of how a Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Hungary became a symbol after his disappearance in January 1945. A variety of aspects are analysed, including secret diplomacy and representations of Wallenberg on film and television as well as in mon...

American Government in Ireland, 1790–1913

This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America’s foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism

Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa

This is the first English translation of Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa. It broadens the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life, providing an engaging introduction to medieval Genoa, civic culture, Dominican composition and the ‘historical Jacopo’.

New frontiers

Examines European, American and Japanese communities in China and Korea, and challenges received notions of agency and collaboration by also looking at the roles in China of British and Japanese colonial subjects from Korea, Taiwan and India, and at Chinese Christians and White Russian refugees.

Photography and memory in Mexico

This study explores a range of photographic images made during the 1910 revolution. Repeatedly reproduced across a range of media in the aftermath of the conflict, the analysis of this select handful of photographs brings to light compelling stories about cultural memory and identity in the twent...

Reading Robin Hood

Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice.

Private property and the fear of social chaos

What do people imagine it means to live in a world where private property is dominant and what are their fears about living in a future world where it has disappeared? This book studies the recurring nightmare that various lumpen mobs could demolish private property. That threatened social chaos...

Derek Jarman

This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman's feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema rather than merely being a cult figure within a particular subculture.

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 ...

European Erotic Romance

European Erotic Romance casts new light on the publication, translation and politicisation of three ancient Greek novels, Daphnis and Chloe, Leukippe and Kleitophon and An Ethiopian Story, and their impact in Renaissance England.

Framing post-Cold War conflicts

This book examines how the media interprets contemporary conflicts and international interventions. It compares British press coverage across six different crises (Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq), examining how conflict is explained and how far Western military intervention...

Britain alone

Ten years after it was initiated, this book provides the definitive account of the 'age of austerity' from high politics to everyday life and how it is permanently altering British society. It shows how scarcity in the name of national survival is intensifying social conflict over who gets what, ...

David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer

Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser, Ronsard to Donne.

Restless justice

An ethnographic study alongside refused and destitute asylum seekers in Manchester and the employees and volunteers working to support them. It offers a new conceptual understanding of borders and advocates for a restless justice in both theory and practice.

Methods for ecocritical art history

By empowering readers to approach the study of art enriched with ecocritical tools, this book makes an indispensable addition to art historical pedagogies.

Monarchy in the Age of Liberty

Drawing on a great variety of sources, this book studies the ideological foundations of monarchy as an institution in eighteenth-century Sweden. Its wide scope and inventive method are of interest to anyone interested in early-modern European politics.

Make cheese not war

Make Cheese Not War traces international support for the community struggle against the expansion of a military base on the Larzac plateau during the 1970s. Across decades and continents, they mobilised a protest rooted in local issues, but travelling routes of resistance with a protest that was ...

Industrial memory in North East England

Industrial memory in North East England examines how the region’s industrial myth and memory have been articulated in the renegotiation of northernness, offering a critical contextualisation of the concept of northernness and the English North.

Future perfect

Future Perfect is a co-creative ethnography combining theatre improvisations, storytelling, collaborative filmmaking and participatory animation in the study of illegalised migration in the Mediterranean. It recognises the centrality of imagination and creativity in the making of lives and storie...

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 ...

Policing the beats

Policing the beats exposes the long history of policing Black music from the era of colonial slavery to the present day.

The Germans in India

This book offers a new interpretation of global migration from c. 1815–1920 by examining the elite German migrants who moved to India especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen, and travelers.

Surrealist women artists and mental illness

Surrealists idealized feminine madness for its purportedly unfettered access to the unconscious. At the same time, an unusually large number of surrealist women artists, including Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo, experienced mental illness. Die these women find the dream of feminized, mad geni...

Monasticism and renewal in southern Italy

The Chronicle of Montecassino is a crucial source for the history of monasticism and that of southern Italy in the early Middle Ages, as well as for the art and architecture of the period.

The Merchant of Venice

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice. Richly contextualised analyses of individual productions by major directors help produce a nuanced picture of the performance history of the play, guiding the reader fr...

Sovereignty disputes and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Adjudicators have struggled with one of the persistent puzzles that the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea presents — the limits to dispute settlement jurisdiction in respect of sovereignty disputes. This book argues for an approach that better accords than decided cases so far with the text, ju...

Un-welcome to Denmark

Un-welcome to Denmark critically assesses the impact of the harsh Danish migration regime on Syrian refugees and welfare professionals and private stakeholders tasked to support their integration into their host society. It thereby traces how a once revered liberal society has turned into Europe’...

The love of books

The love of books explores the bond between people and books in the UK. Using interviews and archive material it investigates the attachment to the practice of reading for pleasure and to books as objects. It focuses on the aesthetic, ethical, and existential impacts of the encounter with books.

Migration and social policy in a changing world

This book bridges social policy and migration studies, exploring responses from the Industrial Revolution to today. Through global case studies, it offers a comprehensive analysis of migrant experiences and host society policies, providing insights for scholars and policymakers.

Musicians and copyright

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of how CMOs managed copyright revenues, shaped the distribution of cultural productions, and adapted to ongoing transformations in the music business over time.

Afterlives of the Troubles

Focusing on experiential life stories across a range of forms and practices in the lengthening 'afterlife' of the Troubles, this book explores complex temporal dynamics of 'post-conflict' subjectivities and the cultural politics of their representation, seen as a neglected dimension of conflict t...

US cultural diplomacy after the Cold War

In the decades following the USSR’s collapse, the United States has shifted from unrivalled hegemon to a position of relative decline. Although America appeared dominant after 1991, its culture—like its diplomatic, military, and economic power—faced little competition. Such favourable conditions ...

The dilemma of authority

The moral problem of authority is the challenge of reconciling legitimate authority (the right to rule) with the demands of freedom and rationality. In this book, it is argued that authority can have legitimacy, but when it does it generates a moral dilemma, where the obligation to obey comes at ...

Racism and the cultural politics of punishment

Racism and the cultural politics of punishment onalyses the 2011 English ‘riots’ and the state’s startlingly punitive response. Drawing on original research inside the criminal justice system, it exposes the denial and ignorance underpinning contemporary politics of law and order and offers insig...

The Nigeria–Biafra war and the making of a humanitarian crisis (1967–70)

Focusing on the Nigeria–Biafra war, this book combines individual, institutional, and governmental perspectives to show how this conflict became a testing ground on which humanitarian practices were reshaped for the postcolonial era, making emergency aid central to the redefinition of Africa–West...

Connoisseurs and conmen

This book examines John Hilditch (1872-1930), a notorious collector of Chinese art who lied, hoaxed and manipulated in his struggle against museum experts to become a cultural authority. Previously overlooked as a pest with a dubious collection, this book uses Hilditch to interrogate how far the ...

Globalising the Nordic Model

A critical examination of the Nordic model and its claims to exceptionalism, exploring how Nordic welfare states have both shaped and been shaped by global events since 1970—from Cold War tensions and globalization to the COVID-19 pandemic—through diverse case studies and perspectives.

Healthcare in Northern Ireland, 1921–73

This book provides insights into the politics, policies and management of healthcare in Northern Ireland from Irish partition in 1921 to the reorganisation of the services in 1973. It covers the interwar era, reforms of the 1940s, and creation and operation of the National Health Service, especia...

Soviet materialities

Soviet materialities rethinks Soviet history and culture through the lens of materiality, exploring how humans and objects co-shaped identity, ideology, and social life. This interdisciplinary volume bridges Soviet-era thought with theoretical insights from New Materialism, offering a groundbreak...

The double game of music

The book uses the metaphor of ‘double games’ to critically analyse how music education, as a series of games, is played. Examining the intertwinement of social power with players’ belief in the purity of their game, and of material with symbolic economies, the authors unravel the complex social d...

The dreadful name of Henry Hills

Rodrigo Ximenez de Rada’s Minor Histories

An English translation and study of the ‘Minor Histories’ of Toledo’s archbishop Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada, including his important work History of the Arabs.

New Basque Gothic

This book explores the twenty-first century upsurge in Gothic screen media emanating from the Basque region of Northern Spain.

Model collapse

Model collapse explores the relationship between art and democracy since the 1990s. Looking at a wide range of case studies it offers fresh insights into the limits of representation, the appeal of collaboration and the role of the nation-state in post-national frameworks.

Stiliagi and Soviet masculinities, 1945–2010

This book explores the Stiliagi, the Soviet Union's first youth subculture from the late 1940s to the 1960s. It examines their Western-influenced fashion, love of jazz, and defiance of Soviet norms, revealing how they challenged traditional masculinity and reshaped Soviet cultural identity.

Abnormal peripheries

This book traces the early history of performance art in the former Czechoslovakia, which developed in the 1960s and 1970s amid the Prague Spring and the subsequent Normalization period marked by censorship, prosecution, and state pressure on artists. Drawing on Czech and Slovak scholarship, as w...