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Propaganda and empire
In this illuminating study John M. Mackenzie explores the manifestations of the imperial idea, from the trappings of royalty through writers like G. A. Henty to the humble cigarette card. He shows that it was so powerful and pervasive that it outlived the passing of Empire itself.
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The blair supremacy
Analyses the way that New Labour was built and sustained under Blair’s leadership
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Judges, politics and the irish constitution
A collection of essays on politics and judicial power in Ireland, featuring contributions from scholars, judges and legal practitioners.
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David malouf
Don Randall's comprehensive study situates acclaimed author David Malouf within the field of contemporary international and psotcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, but also engages with t...
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Julius caesar
Presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen
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The ngo care and food aid from america, 1945–80
This book on the humanitarian NGO CARE offers a unique historical insight into the successes and crises of one of the major private humanitarian players throughout the second half of the 20th century.
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Bussy d'ambois
Revels stuff. . . .|This Edition of George Chapman's tragedy differs from all other modern editions in being primarily based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. N. S. Brooke believes that the earlier text gives a more certain indication of Chapman's intentions...
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The war that won't die
Students and Lecturers and intelligent readers interested in the Spanish Civil War and the representation of history in cinema
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Domestic fortress
This book critically analyses the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security, a relationship fuelled by the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of home-ownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate...
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A history of international relations theory
This new edition of a hugely popular title traces discussions about international relations from the middle ages up to the present times. It presents central concepts in historical context and shows how ancient ideas still affect the way we perceive world politics.
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Breaking the deadlock
This latest edition of a prestigious and venerable series surveys the build up to the tumultuous 2019 General Election and its immediate aftermath, offering reasoned conjecture about the future of British party politics and democracy.
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Reassembling the social interior
At the intersection of heritage, design history and contemporary art, this book offers new perspectives on the way historical interiors are encountered by, and viewed and presented for, present-day audiences. Many studies have highlighted the historical significance and meanings embedded in the l...
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George iii
The first chronological survey of the first ten years of George III’s reign through power politics and policy-making.
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National missile defence and the politics of us identity
This book uncovers the controversial policies surrounding the strategy of national missile defence and provides an alternative, and arguably more inclusive, mode of interpretation of a strategy that is deeply embedded in performances of US identity.
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B. r. ambedkar
A short, digestible biography of this important Indian statesman, whose compassion and devotion to public standards should serve as a model for the politicians of our day.
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Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century
From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years.
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Love, history and emotion in chaucer and shakespeare
This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare.
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Empire and enterprise
The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England’s trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state. This is the first book to recognise the key role of the Adventurers and the centrality of Ireland to the Wars of...
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De stijl and dutch modernism
De Stijl was the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917 and is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. This book is the first to emphasize the local context of De Sti...
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The newspaper clipping
Examines knowledge production and its visual and material background, combining the perspectives of media history with art history and the history of science.
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Chinoiserie
A critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness, and ornamental excesses
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David lean
Comprehensive overview of the director’s body of work which yields new insights on the established classics of Lean’s career as well as its lesser-known treasures
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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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Recognition theory and contemporary french moral and political philosophy
Both pedagogical and critical, this collection outlines the current state of recognition theory, studies the influence of French theory upon its evolution, and uses French thought to identity aspects of the recognitive process which are often overlooked.
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Rebel by vocation
From 1940 to 1954, The Bell was notable as an outspoken liberal voice at a time of political and intellectual stagnation. While primarily a literary magazine, it is now mostly discussed in the context of its hard political criticism. Carson has unearthed a wealth of sources to put The Bell in its...
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The british musical film
"This book is to be recommended as a good, informative, broad-based survey, useful for students of film, media, drama and cultural studies who are looking for an entry into this broad genre and to use this text as a general resource."Christine Etherington-Wright, Studies in Musical Theatre"Mundy ...
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Sarah kane in context
First collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in their field on one of the most controversial and influential dramatists who emerged during the ‘In-Yer Face’ generation of British dramatists in the 1990s. Essential, wide-ranging, European guide to Kane for students and scholars of T...
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A brief history of thrift
This book explores ‘thrift’ through its moral, religious, ethical, political, spiritual and philosophical expressions, and via key characters such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Smiles, and Henry Thoreau.
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Britain and the formation of the gulf states
This book offers new insight into the end of the British Empire in the Middle East. It takes a fresh look at the relationship between Britain and the Gulf rulers at the height of the British Empire, and how its effects are still felt internationally today.
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Clanship to crofters' war
Charts the story of the people of the Scottish Highlands from medieval times to the great crofter's rebellion in the 1880s
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A history of humanitarianism, 1755–1989
The book traces the history of international aid from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. The reconstruction of humanitarianism’s long pattern unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, t...
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Modernism and empire
The first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire
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Productive failure
This monograph provides novel methods for writing transnational South Asian art history outside of genealogy.
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Republicanism in ireland
This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideology and practice of ...
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The grotesque in contemporary british fiction
This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illuminating picture of often controversial aspects of recent fiction.
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States of danger and deceit
This HOME film dossier revisits a key decade in European film history. The 1970s was a period of great social upheaval and these are the films that reflect it.
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Class, work and whiteness
This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in ...
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The swiss reformation
The Swiss Reformation was a seminal event of the sixteenth century which created a Protestant culture whose influence spread across Europe from Transylvania to Scotland. Offers the first comprehensive study of the Swiss Reformation and argues that the movement must be understood in terms of the h...
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Writing power
This is a book about what it is like to live and work with ‘the canon’ and how this shapes the way we think about intellectuals now. In contemporary global academia, what does it mean to write ‘with’ the canon and what is at stake if you don’t, can’t, or won’t?
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Cowboy hamlets and zombie romeos
The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical Hollywood era to contemporary blockbuster cinema. Its genre-based analyses revisit old favourites and rediscover long-forgotten treasures of film history, taking adaptation studies...
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Male voices on women's rights
Male voices on women’s rights is a timely complement to the studies undertaken in recent years on men’s roles in the history of feminism.This unique collection of seminal, little-known or forgotten writings, spanning from 1809 to 1913, will help the revision of many common assumptions and misconc...
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Romantic women's life writing
Explores how the publication of women’s life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century
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The playboy and james bond
A study of the Bond phenomenon and its relation to the rise of playboy culture from the 1960s onwards.
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Watching the world
Watching the world extends the reach of documentary studies by investigating recent instances of screen documentary and the uses made of them by audiences
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Diplomacy and lobbying during turkey’s europeanisation
This book presents intricate, backstage negotiations of interests and compromises between diplomats and lobbyists through the corridors of power, which drove Turkey both closer to and farther apart from the EU.
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The great forgetting
Explodes the myth that globalisation is the cause of inequality and that the state can do little to protect us.
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The gothic and death
An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms.
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Interior decorating in nineteenth-century france
This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproduction enabled the still-unnamed profession of the interior designer to take shape.
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Passing into the present
This is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990’s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.
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Law and violence
A interlocution containing a stimulating lead essay on the relationship between law and violence by one of the key third-generation Frankfurt School philosophers, Christoph Menke, and engaged responses by a variety of influential critics.
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Serial shakespeare
This book explores Shakespeare’s presence in the American cultural imaginary at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It traces how his texts are disseminated and reassembled in contemporary TV shows such as The Wire, Deadwood, Westworld, House of Cards and The Americans.
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Imperial nostalgia
A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media.
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German expressionism
This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. It offers a novel perspective on familiar aspects of Expressionism and abstraction, taking seriously the inheritance of modernism for the ...
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The sword is not enough
In this lucid and timely new book Jeremy Pressman demonstrates that the default use of military force on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict has prevented its peaceful resolution.
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Peacemaking in the twenty-first century
Series of lectures on peacekeeping by major international figures
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Death and security
A comparative study of memorialisation and reconstruction in post-terrorist bomb sites, which argues that security practices are fundamentally connected to death anxiety.
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The material renaissance
Focussing on the consumer demand for goods in Renaissance Italy, The Material Renaissance establishes the dynamic social character of exchange. It demonstrates that the cost of goods, including the price of the most basic items, was largely contingent upon on the relationship between buyer and se...
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Images of africa
Challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent.
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'the industrialized designer'
This book contributes new perspectives on the identity of the industrial designer, particularly from a gendered perspective, through a critical interrogation of the 'heroic male designer'. It explores the professionalisation of industrial design in Britain and the US from 1930–80, a 'new professi...
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Pistols in st paul's
Investigating a series of cutting-edge acoustic experiments in twentieth-century Britain, this unique book reveals how exciting new ideas from science and music had a lasting effect on architectural design.
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Unfolding irish landscapes
This is the first scholarly edited collection devoted to the work of the Anglo-Irish writer and cartographer Tim Robinson
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Pat barker
This book provides a comprehensive account and critical analysis of the literary career to date of Pat Barker, one of the most celebrated and popular of contemporary British novelists.
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Literary and visual ralegh
This collection of essays covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. The essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and his representation in the Arts; others re-examine him as poet, historian, and figure of controversy.
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Physick and the family
Offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales
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Aristocratic families in republican france, 1870–1940
A study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic.
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Reading and politics in early modern england
This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. The findings of the study challenge a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream...
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Troilus and cressida
A history of Shakespeare’s play in performance, from John Dryden’s Restoration adaptation to the rediscovery of the play in the twentieth century.
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From jack tar to union jack
In this pioneering study, Conley examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Jack Tar to Union Jack is indispensable reading as it reminds us of the navy’s long-standing influence upon British domestic and imperial culture.
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Journeyman
This new edition of Journeyman, Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for whom he wrote the unforgettable The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
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Women's rights
This exciting collection of documents offers readers access to primary material illustrating the experiences of women in Britain in politics, society and daily life in the period 1770 to the 1970s.
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The four funerals in beowulf
A groundbreaking work which produces many insights into this early masterpiece
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Literature of the stuart successions
By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart Successions offers fresh perspectives upon the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing, as w...
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Europeanising party politics
A comparative, empirically-based study of party politics in Central and Eastern Europe that seeks to define the impact of European Union membership in this area.
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Gender and imperialism
This book marks an important new intervention into a vibrant area of scholarship, creating a dialogue between the histories of imperialism and of women and gender. By engaging critically with both traditional British imperial history and colonial discourse analysis, the essays demonstrate how fem...
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Kitty marion
This is the unpublished autobiography of Kitty Marion, an actress, music hall performer, suffragette arsonist and campaigner in the American birth control movement. Written in the 1930s, Marion’s story of activism offers a unique insight into a lifetime dedicated to the improvement of women’s liv...
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Our fighting sisters
Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century. Our Fighting Sisters is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962.
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Beyond representation
Beyond Representation poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been signs of ‘progress’/’progressiveness’ in the representation of ‘marginalised’ or subaltern identity categories, within television drama in Britain and the US.
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Paul abbott
The first book-length academic study of the television programmes created, written by, and/or executive-produced, by Abbott
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Researching urban space and the built environment
Researching urban space and the built environment is a unique and accessible guide to the planning, researching and writing of spatial histories.
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Migration into art
Provides close readings of works by internationally renowned artists, including Rina Banerjee, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Pat Ward Williams and Bharti Kher
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David milch
This book is about the life and work of David Milch, the writer who created NYPD Blue, Deadwood and other important works of US television drama. It locates him within the traditions of achievement in American literature over the past in order to evaluate his contribution to fiction writing.
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Postnationalist african cinemas
This book examines the benefits and limits of cultural nationalism, and describes the preliminary steps taken by contemporary filmmakers in order to establish a new popular African cinema.
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Childcare, health and mortality in the london foundling hospital, 1741–1800
This book is a thorough and appealing investigation into the health and welfare of abandoned babies and children in eighteenth-century England. It uses a variety of approaches to examine health, mortality and welfare practices, including family fostering, wet-nursing, disease and the impact of ab...
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Court and civic society in the burgundian low countries c.1420–1530
This book is about the spectacles and ceremonies of society in the Low Countries. It is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga’s famous study of the Burgundian court in The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print.
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The management of the british economy, 1945–2001
This essential work for students of economic and economic history provides an overview of economic management in Britain since 1945, how it has changed and why it has not always been successful. It examines clearly the policies introduced, the problems various governments faced in implementing th...
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In the shadow of history
From 1926 onward, Sinn Féin, which had been instrumental in the revolutionary period of 1919–23, faded into oblivion as a result of its intransigent and doctrinaire stance. This book unravels a chapter of history that has not been dealt with in detail until now.
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Players' work time
This critical account of the Musicians' Union from 1893-2013 explores the organisation's development as a set of responses to technological, industrial and socio-political changes.
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Deportation limbo
Deportation limbo is a political ethnography of deportation enforcement in Denmark and Sweden. Building on research on frontline officials working in immigration detention and deportation camps, it traces the continuum of state violence mobilised to pressure non-deported people to leave, and its ...
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Exiting war
This book explores a particular 1918-20 ‘moment’ in the British Empire’s history, between the First World War’s armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. It documents and conceptualises this 1918-20 ‘moment’ and its characteristics as a crucial three-year period of transformati...
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The irish parliament, 1613–89
This book is a study of the Irish parliament as an administrative and legal institution. It is particularly interested in how parliament dispatched the business put before it, how its various parts interacted and how this colonial institution engaged with other elements of the administrative mach...
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Simulating the marvellous
Simulating the marvellous presents important new research on Surrealism and the culture from which it arose. Offering fresh interpretations of Surrealist art and literature based around the theme of simulation, the book shows, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that the notion ...
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Humanitarianism and the greater war, 1914–24
This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War.
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My voice: ruth edwards
Ruth'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. Ruth Edwards escaped to England during World War II, which meant a difficult separation from her parents. She went on settle in Manchest...
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Labour and working-class lives
This collection of essays deals with the latest research on British labour history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It has been written by leading British historians, such as Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley, in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley
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Terrorism and democratic stability revisited
Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic breakdown? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences. In this study of Uruguay, Spain and Peru, Holmes claims that to understand the consequences of violence on democratic stabilty, terrorism and state re...
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Roy ward baker
This book traces the career of one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry over more than sixty years, who directed landmark British films, worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Rank in Hollywood, moved to television series such as 'The Avengers' and re-emerged as a major...
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Georges melies
Before the turn of the twentieth century, before the nickelodeon, even before the first cinemas, Georges Méliès began making movies.. Directing, editing, producing, designing, and starring in over 500 films between 1896 to 1912, Méliès was also the first cinematic auteur.. This is the first study...
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Thomas pynchon
A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon
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