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

A bold analysis that exposes the racist policing of Black music.The emergence of UK drill music made headline news, portraying it as a criminal enterprise instead of recognising it as an art form. This new rap subgenre, however, is neither the first, nor the only Black music to be targeted this w...

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, from Michelle Pace with Sarah El-Abd, critically assesses Denmark’s migration regime by directly engaging the voices of multiple stakeholders impacted by its harshness. It puts forward the theory of the 'unwelcome migrant' by undertaking an extensive analysis of the program...

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

This book analyses the so-called moral problem of authority, which is the challenge of reconciling legitimate authority (the right to rule) with the demands of freedom and rationality. It offers a critique of authority sceptics, both anarchist and non-anarchist, who insist that authority can neve...

Racism and the cultural politics of punishment

Justifying (in)justice offers an in-depth analysis of the 2011 English ‘riots’ and the state’s startlingly punitive response. Drawing on original research inside the criminal justice system, it traces the forms of denial and ignorance that underpin the contemporary politics of law and order, and ...

The nigeria-biafra war and the making of a humanitarian crisis (1967-1970)

Part of a historiography of humanitarianism in full renewal, this book tells the story of the war, its metamorphosis into an international crisis and the responses that were provided.

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.

Health care in northern ireland, 1921–73

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

This book provides the first complete English translation of works by the Toledan archbishop Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada (1170–1247 CE). The Minor Histories, serving as supplements to Rodrigo’s much larger Gothic History, covered the Romans, Huns, Vandals, Alans, Suevi, Ostrogoths and Arabs, explaini...

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

A ground-breaking exploration of how art responds to democratic crisis.Is democracy over? Did we ever really have it? Most people would agree that today democracy finds itself in crisis. As this crisis has intensified, art has emerged as an important means of experimenting with new democratic pro...

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...

The films of bigas luna

The first comprehensive English-language study of Bigas Luna's complete filmography, this book explores genre, gender representation, Iberian and Mediterranean identities, and meta-cinematic narratives. It can be read as a cohesive study of his oeuvre or as a reference for specific films.

Criminality, political power and conflict

This volume brings together contributions from various scholars working on the intersections between political power, criminality and conflict in three continents. Through qualitative methods and rich empirical data, the volume contributes to the understanding of politicisation and criminalisatio...

The gothic in times of crisis

An exploration of new Gothic, old Gothic, and their intersection with the crises of our own times. This text shows Gothic as it encompasses each new reality, each new apocalypse, each new plague or crisis we are going through.

Black socialities

The book explores black urban resistance against racist imagery, policing, and housing insecurity in the Parisian region. Based on ethnographic research and qualitative interviews, this study explores the formation of abolitionist spatial resistance, mutli-racial solidarity and the possibilities ...

Lords and pastors

This book presents six medieval biographies of bishops from the German Empire, translated into English for the first time. The texts span the tenth to thirteenth centuries, and offer fascinating windows onto politics and society in the central Middle Ages.

Electric wind

A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain.There are turbines on the horizon. The blades whirl with metronomic rhythm. With each rotation, wind is transformed into electricity. An energy revolution is underway. Electric wind rewinds to the beginning to explore the rise of wind energy in mode...

The right in latin america

A comprehensive look at radical and mainstream right-wing movements in Latin America, examining their influence and strategies in shaping regional politics.

Turning revolt into style

Turning revolt into style: The process and practice of punk graphic designis a comprehensive analysis of punk aesthetics and the subculture’s key watchwords of do-it-yourself, autonomy, and authenticity in relation to the professional practices and technological conventions of the graphic design ...

Pier paolo pasolini for art history and practice

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s influential cinematic and literary works attest to a crucial early formation: his intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume’s wide-ranging chapters reflect the breadth of P...

A sociology of kindness as everyday enchantment

A sociological investigation of how and why the idea of kindness has come to take a hold in many contemporary English-speaking societies.

Counter-realism

An ambitious and original study with case studies focusing on the works of William Kentridge, Amalia Ulman, Melanie Gilligan, Ryan Trecartin and Elizabeth Price, Counter-realism shows the ways in which key features of contemporary art may be understood in relation to fundamental aspects of contem...

Bloodsuckers of the commonwealth

This book examines anti-monopoly petitioning activity in England between 1590-1625. It reveals that the growth of monopolies and issuing of new charters was an integral issue triggering subjects to engage in politics. It adds a new dimension to scholarly understandings of popular political cultur...

Marks she made

This book explores the remarkable life of Begum Samru (c. 1750–1836), a North Indian ruler who rose from courtesan to sovereign, using art and architecture to navigate power in early modern India. Through her story, the book reveals how women defied gender norms to shape public and political sphe...

United states and chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy

United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy addresses the analytic weaknesses of mainstream analysis of foreign aid, which often focuses on its material dimensions. The book underscores the constitutive relationship between foreign aid as a material resource and the diplomatic disc...

Shakespeare's borrowed feathers

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights on the celebrated works of William Shakespeare.

Creativity and illness

The interplay between ill health and artistic creativity is demonstrated in fascinating surveys of afflicted artists, composers, and authors and their works.

Caribbean eco-aesthetics

This edited volume reframes the Caribbean as a paradigm of ecological resilience and creativity by bringing together the voices of contemporary artists and scholars who are at the forefront of environmental activism in the region and across its diasporas.

Useful art

Useful Art explores how art can be a tool for activism and resistance against neoliberalism. Highlighting projects from urban regeneration to community gardens, it showcases how art can foster inclusion, reclaim local knowledge, and drive real-world change.

Visual arts and medicine in early modern europe and beyond

This book establishes novel points of connection between European art and medicine in early modernity, opening up new perspectives on the material, social, and theoretical basis of each discipline.

Diplomatic training

Examining the histories, development and contemporary practices of diplomatic training, this edited collection places training centrally within our understanding of international relations. It offers a globe-spanning, interdisciplinary account of the politics of diplomatic training and appeals to...

Wendy toye

This book delves into the groundbreaking career of Wendy Toye, a trailblazing director, choreographer and creative force in British cinema and television. Through an in-depth exploration of her works, it examines her impact on post-war filmmaking, her virtuosity of movement and storytelling, and ...

Playing politics

This study focuses on the 1670–71 season in the Restoration playhouses, an exciting and formative moment in theatrical and political history. The year proved to be difficult and damaging to King Charles II, as political, religious, and personal matters provoked controversy and disquiet, and the c...

Contemporary art and ecological transformation in east and southeast asia

This volume explores how contemporary art in East and Southeast Asia addresses ecological crises, through artistic interventions that inspire environmental consciousness, social justice, and sustainable futures.

Acting and performance in hitchcock

This book explores acting in a range of Hitchcock films, with leading scholars providing close readings of a selection of celebrated and lesser-known performances from across the director’s career.

The roots of populism

A novel and highly engaging philosophical analysis of populism and how it represents both a challenge to and promise of renewal for liberal democracy. Elliott argues that neoliberal governance has sought to bury the legacy of working-class politics but now the reappearance of “the people” is caus...

My voice: leonard kaufmann

Leonard’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. Leonard Kaufmann began life in Germany in 1935, came to England on the Kindertransport, and went on to live in Manchester where he wo...

End of empire and the english novel since 1945

First book-length critical work devoted to the impact of the end of empire and traces of imperial memory in mainstream English Literature since the Second World War. Authors studied include Josephine Tey, William Golding, Penelope Lively, David Peace and Ian McEwan. Represents the best of current...

Approaching the bible in medieval england

Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history, music, literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached, revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England.

Rural quality of life

Rural quality of life is a multidisciplinary and critical contribution from 49 authors from Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania to the understanding of quality of life in rural areas in the global North. They point to the need for vision among planners, policymakers, and people in ge...

Inside accounts, volume i

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 ...

The regulation of standards in british public life

This is an analysis of the revolution of the last two decades that has built an extensive new regulatory apparatus governing British public ethics. The book sets the new machinery in the wider institutional framework of British government. Its main purpose is to understand the dilemmas of regulat...

The hurt(ful) body

Brings into mutual dialogue several existing strands of the study of pain and embodied violence. The volume’s two-fold approach, themed both on the hurt and hurt-inducing body, is unique. It encompasses both the victim’s presence as an image or performed event of pain and the transmitted burden o...

The shakespearean comic and tragicomic

Richard Hillman’s latest book on the French connections of early modern English drama shows that Shakespeare regularly inflected the models provided by Italian comedy and tragicomedy by evoking French material, dramatic and non-dramatic. Such inflection especially bears on the tragic overtones th...

The far right in the balkans

The first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the far right parties in the Balkans

Defense of the west

This book offers a history of a transatlantic security relationship that has endured for over seventy years, examining how developments inside NATO and European Union member states affect their ability to defend against external threats while preserving Western values, in the era of Trump and Bre...

Juke box britain

Presents a highly original and detailed investigation into the nature of American visual, musical and cultural influences on British youth between 1945 and 1960. It looks at the spread of youth culture, juke boxes, coffee and milk bars, dress styles and rock ‘n’ roll and the context of these ‘new...

Creating the opium war

This book explores British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from 1792 to 1840.

Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a british world, 1860–1911

Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors – including royals, politicians and indigenous people – in order to demonstrate how a multi-valent British culture was created throughout the empire.

Colonial caring

The editors have brought together eleven authors for an analysis of colonial and post-colonial nursing that spans nearly a century, and touches on Europe, Australia, the Caribbean and Africa

Integration in ireland

This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers and goes on to aruge that migrants are themselves shaping integration in their everyday lives in the face of enormous challenges.

Gender, artwork and the global imperative

A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s.

Reforming food in post-famine ireland

The first dedicated study of how and why Irish consumption and production customs dramatically transformed after the famine and independence

Married to the empire

Situates women at the centre of the practices and policies of British imperialism

News and rumour in jacobean england

Examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I’s reign.

The cult of the duce

The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, looking in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media, and analyses its controversial resonances in the postwa...

Bog bodies

Reinterpreting the latest research and discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking study of Worsley Man, this book brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. It also reflects on the debate over whether bog...

Impostures in early modern england

Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of sources, from judicial archives and other official records to chronicles, newspapers, ballads, pamphlets and autobiographical writings.

Industrial enlightenment

This book uses a case study to explore the contribution which scientific knowledge made to the growth trajectory of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The aim is not to re-tell the story of the Industrial Revolution, but to reconstruct its preliminary stage which is he...

Towards a just europe

This book analyses the problem of distributive justice in the European Union. The author examines the nature of the distributive duties linked to EU membership and puts forward a set of policy proposals to advance a just Europe.

Academic ambassadors, pacific allies

This book offers a critical appraisal of Fulbright achievements and limitations in avoiding political influence, integrating gender and racial diversity, absorbing conflict and dissent, and responding to economic fluctuations and social change.

The face of the city

This pioneering and unprecedented study shows how portraits of civic officials (mayors, aldremen, college and school masters and civic benefactors) articulated civic values in post-Reformation England. It also explores English portraiture, patrons and painters before the full reception of new-cl...

Old fortunatus

Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker’s Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition mak...

Ngugi wa thiong'o

Patrick William’s lucid analysis offers the most up-to-date study of Ngugi’s writing, including his most rcent collection of essays. Ngugi is one of the most important novelists on the contemporary world stage, and someone whose name has for many become synonymous with cultural controversy and po...

Race and empire

The story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century.

The works of richard edwards

The heart of this book is its fully annotated, critical editions of the surviving work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. Ros King's extensive introduction, identifying the holes in the documentary evidence that might accomm...

The wolves are coming back

The wolves are coming back moves beyond stereotypic representations of East Germany, and shines light on the complexities of post-socialist life and losses. It seeks to explain the extraordinary success of new far right parties in a vivid ethnographic recounting of the local politics of fear, hop...

The political interests of gender revisited

The book makes a compelling case for reconstructing feminist theory in critical-realist terms and forms a trend-setting text in the area of gender studies.

Postcolonial manchester

Offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene.

Constitutions and political theory

Constitutions and political theory is a concise textbook offering a omprehensive analysis of the principal-agent problematic inherent in all forms of politics. It shows how rule of law institutions come in two forms that restrain opportunism in politics. And it traces the principal-agent perspect...

The debate on the norman conquest

The debate on the Norman Conquest is still ongoing. Because of the great interest that has always been shown in the subject of conquest and its aftermath, interpretations have been numerous and conflicting; students bewildered by controversies may find this book a useful guide through the morass ...

Conserving health in early modern culture

Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy, its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries.

Regulating sexuality

Argues that a commonality of purpose existed between the Catholic and Protestant Churches concerning the regulation of female sexuality,

The new politics of poland

This book offers a multi-layered analysis of how and why Poland has changed over the past thirty years and how this is relevant for its recent political crisis.