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Kids and branding in a digital world
How do kids become engaged with brands? Does their relationship with them change throughout their life? Providing a detailed analysis of kids and branding, the author considers specific models of cognitive development throughout childhood.
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Exploring history 1400–1900
This book offers a broad sweep of 500 years of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and state-formation. This book illuminates links between concurrent events in diverse places and provides insights into the daily concerns and critical debates...
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Art and migration
This volume offers responses to the view that migration is disruptive of national heritage. It investigates the empathy and mediation migratory aesthetics provide, re-evaluates the cultural understanding of borders and transnationalism and presents an overview of migration terminology for use by ...
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Alison uttley: spinner of tales
An acclaimed biography of one of Britain's most popular writers
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Writing the welsh borderlands in anglo-saxon england
An ambitious book which argues that the March of Wales, as it existed as a legally defined space in the period after 1066, had a long pre-history as a place of encounter and interchange from the early Anglo-Saxon period. It is argued that this frontier space was not inevitably a zone of ethnic co...
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Leading the localities
The first major publication to assess the impact on local politics of the new office of directly-elected mayor, now finally available in paperback.
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Building reputations
This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and architectural taste, it rehabilitates the reputation of the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and c...
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U.s. economic history since 1945
A concise, accessible review of the principal economic developments and social changes in the US between 1945 and the present day.. Covers an era of US economic dominance and the challenge from overseas.. Links more 'historical' post-war developments to the rapid 'contemporary' changes of the 197...
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Literatures of the hundred years war
This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature. It shows how war impacted the lives and works of major writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Catherine of Siena, while also arguing for a transnational approa...
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Karl polanyi
This volume makes a significant contribution to the new economic sociology. It draws upon a Polanyian foundation but moves forward, developing neo-Polanyian agendas in relation to developments of contemporary capitalism.
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The rise of the modern art market in london
The first study of how the art market developed in London and made the city the capital of the international trade in art.
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The levellers
Offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Foxley challenges received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalization of parliamentarian thought.
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Marxism and america
If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism’s recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: New appraisals sheds new light on that question in essays that engage sexuality, gender, race, nationalism, class, memory, and much more.
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Women reading shakespeare 1660–1900
Comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare.
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The independent man
This book explores changing notions of political and personal virtue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and offers a new account of masculinity and citizenship in English culture.
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Policing youth
Evaluates the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change
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Not magic but work
This is a detailed description of the intensive work process involved in the making of Toy Symphony, a new play by Michael Gow, directed by Neil Armfield and brought to the stage for the first time in December 2007 by Company B at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney. Drawing on years of research...
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Robert southwell
Robert Southwell’s poetic view of Spenser’s, Signey’s and Shakespeare’s England is a cold one. This book close reads and contextualises his lighter lyric poetry and its connections to English recusant culture from the music of Willian Bryd to the coded embroideries of Mary Queen of Scots.
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Living in sin
Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in Victorian England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. The work also analyses marriage, the Victorian legal system, relations with kin and the reactions of the wider comunities to extra-legal partnerships.
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Cultures and caricatures of british imperial aviation
Looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Gathers new evidence to distil the age, class, gender and occupational profiles of people who used private and commercial aircraft and looks at how flying in the ...
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Defense policies of east-central european countries after 1989
This book clarifies the ways in which the defense policies of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia have responded to the new atmosphere on the edge of Europe, in light of Russian aggressiveness during and after the 2013-2014 Ukrainian-Crimean crisis.
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Wales and the british overseas empire
This unique collection of essays examines the many relationships that existed between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830.
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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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Russian strategy in the middle east and north africa
The book analyses Russia’s political and economic interests in the Middle East and North Africa, its relations with the MENA countries and its diplomatic engagement with the Western powers. It examines Russia’s strategy in the region, including its role in the Syria conflict, in the context of it...
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The european union in the asia-pacific
The collection studies the interactions of the European Union and the Asia Pacific, focusing on the EU as an emerging global player in contemporary international relations.
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Human agents and social structures
This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate – such as ‘society’ and the ‘individual’ – have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real natu...
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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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Descending with angels
This book and award-winning film provide a unique account of the invisible dynamics of possession and psychosis, and how Muslim patients are transformed through the treatments offered by mosques and the psychiatric institutions of European nation-states.
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Governing the health care state
This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern states are indissolubly bound together.
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The extended self
Refuting popular concepts of the self as separate beings, the author proposes a new theory of the “extended self” as a product of the coevolution of humankind and technology, comprising both social and material elements
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Genre and performance: film and television
This book explores how popular film and television genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings together innovative and inspiring work on this topic from both renowned and newer academics in the field and examines a much neglected area.
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Governing natives
This book examines both the turn to indirect rule as a way of mediating and resolving some of the contradictions that had tended to crisis, and the way both indirect rule and settler colonialism were transformed by this new political dispensation.
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Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780–1890
Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery.
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Britain’s ‘brown babies’
This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2,000 children born to black GIs and white British women in World War II. Stories from over 50 of these children, alongside many photographs, reveal the racism and stigma of growing up in what was then a very white country.
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Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern british medicine and culture
This book explores early modern British responses to nose reconstruction, and the concerns and possibilities raised by rumoured nose transplants.
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The ethics of researching war
Developed through a series of encounters with a Bosnian Serb soldier, Looking for Bosnia is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of responding to extreme political violence in the context of the Bosnian war.
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Information resource description
'Hider’s text provides a fulsome understanding of metadata standards, how they differ, how they are employed, and how vocabularies shape our access to the full spectrum of information about a topic. It is an accessible, well-written and almost conversational overview of information resources des...
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Paramilitary loyalism
Takes a provocative second look at paramilitary loyalism. Based on extensive documentary and oral evidence from former combatants, politicians and key interlocutors.
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Technical politics
This book explores Andrew Feenberg’s idea that technology is both the main medium of domination in contemporary society and the principal site of democratic resistance. It presents his work as an account of the connection between disputes over the design of specific technologies and the challenge...
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Everyday security threats
Everyday security threats explores public perceptions of security threats in contemporary Britain, using data from extensive fieldwork and drawing on perspectives from International Relations, security studies and political psychology.
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The last yugoslav generation
The last Yugoslav Generation charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s
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Teenage intimacies
Based upon over 300 personal testimonies, the book traces the everyday experiences of teenage girls of the post-war period, illuminating how matters of romance, sex and intimacy shaped their young lives. In doing so, it reveals the pivotal role that young women played in changing English sexual c...
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Laurent cantet
The first book-length study of Cantet’s work in English. It explores his unique working ‘method,’ and discusses his very particular way of constructing films at the uneasy interface of the individual, the group and the broader social context.
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Intimacy in postmodern times
This book says farewell to Zygmunt Bauman by reflecting on the author’s thirty-year collaboration with him. Using his own archives and published work, Peter Beilharz establishes the nature of their friendship and the development of their respective intellectual projects on modernity, the postmode...
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Through the keyhole
This interdisciplinary study of the modern formation of concepts of public decency in France proceeds through a focus on the word pudeur (modesty), following its incidence across a wide range of cultural domains.
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High culture and tall chimneys
This study follows the development of Lancashire’s unique network of art institutions throughout the nineteenth century, exploring the motivations of the artists, patrons, politicians and philanthropists involved.
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Anthony munday and civic culture
This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period. It will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers.
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In/security in colombia
A fascinating and comprehensive analysis of the official security discourse in Colombia, this book investigates discursive and material practices that write the identities of state, self and others.
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Political issues in the world today
This book provides a comprehensive account of the most salient political issues in world politics and explains their significance in a way that is accessible to students and non-specialists alike. The end of the Cold War led to a widespread feeling of relief and talk of a new world order. Optimis...
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Democratic passions
This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first-half of the nineteenth century from the new perspective of the history of emotions. It changes the way in which we look not only at popular radicalism but also at the affective qualities of politics itself in modern Britain and beyond.
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A theory of the super soldier
Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality.
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Shaping a global women's agenda
Shaping a global women’s agenda documents the crucial and central role of women’s international organisations played at the League of Nations and at the United Nations as the NGOs interjected concerns for women’s and human rights into the global governance system.
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Sugar rush
Sugar rush argues that despite its revolutionary claims, the contemporary attack on sugar represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo.
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James baldwin review
The James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.
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The face of medicine
Sheds new light on the relevance of the visual in medical and scientific cultures, and on the relationship between artistic and medical practices and imagery.
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Nudge, nudge, think, think
This book builds on the 'nudge' idea proposed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, proposing an alternative 'think' strategy that calls on citizens to decide their own priorities as part of a process of civic and democratic renewal. It sets out the different approaches in theory and presents a se...
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Joseph losey
The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries, from . collaborator with Bertholt Brecht, director of Hollywood B-pictures and victim of McCarthyism, to director of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Betw...
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Gesta romanorum
This is the most complete translation ever attempted of these moral tales, and will be a valuable source text for all scholars and students of medieval literature.
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Intertextuality in modern arabic literature since 1967
This volume of essays is the first to be dedicated to the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, it brings together essays on a range of writers from all parts of the Arab world, including, among others, Edwar al-Khar...
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Beslan
This book is the first, sustained close reading of Russian-language online media accounts of the 2004 Beslan school siege, now seen as a vital turning point in Russia’s approach to terrorism and in the Putin/Medvedev presidencies.
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Mutinous memories
The French mutinies of 1919 stretched from the Soviet Union through to France’s naval ports. It is the first study to try to understand the subjective world of the mutineers.
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The family of love
The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times.
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Three renaissance usury plays
This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabethan and Jacobean 'usury plays' – The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, and The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an extensive scholarly introduction to the attitud...
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Spectacular performances
Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self-fashioning, as disguise and as the very...
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Civilised by beasts
This book offers a unique account of life in nineteenth-century Dublin, told through human-animal relationships. It argues that the exploitation of animals formed a key component of urban change, from municipal reform to class formation to the expansion of public health and policing.
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Tensions in the struggle for sexual minority rights in europe
The first queer and poststructuralist reading of political rights concepts in the specific European transnational context.
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Overwhelmed by overflows?
This book assembles scholars from across the social sciences to explore how people and organisations deal with overflows – of information, goods or choices. It asks whether overflow is understood as abundance or excess, and looks at how it is addressed in different contexts, from sharing economie...
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History and memory
History and memory supplies an accessible and readable introduction to recent work on memory in history and other disciplines, and contributes to debate on the nature and significance of history as an intellectual discipline.
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The regeneration of east manchester
Explores the role of public sector agencies in the regeneration of east Manchester
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The activation of citizenship in europe
This instructive study examines how a transnational discourse on ‘modern’ social policy – based the guiding principles of ‘activation’ and an ‘activating welfare state’ – intervenes in the concepts and practices of citizenship.
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Religious franks
A unique collection that offers fresh and original perspectives on some of the most important themes in Frankish history
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Galatea and midas
Two of John Lyly's most engaging plays
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Intelligence, security and the attlee governments, 1945–51
A ground-breaking examination of the Attlee government's intelligence activities during the early stages of the Cold War, drawn from previously unavailable documents.
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Contemporary spanish cinema
Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and autonomies.
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Capitalising on constraint
This book explores the constraints on national executives in the five bailed out countries of the Eurozone - namely Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. It also sheds light on the policy-makers’ discretion and motivations to revert, or alternatively to keep, policies that had been taken u...
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Capital and popular cinema
Capital and popular cinema responds to the need for a more solid academic approach by situating 'low' film genres in their economic and culturally-specific contexts and by exploring the interconnections between those contexts, the immediate industrial-financial interests sustaining the films, and...
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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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Beckett and media
This collection of essays stages a dialogue between leading Beckett scholars and media theorists and offers the first sustained critical enquiry into Beckett as a media artist and his intermedial work.
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Trials of the self
Duellists, drunks and remorseful murderers populate Trials of the self, which highlights the criminal court as a space for publicising and negotiating models of the self. Using criminal trial records, the book argues that inner depth became increasingly important around 1800, not only for elites,...
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Immigrants as outsiders in the two irelands
Immigrants as outsiders in the two Irelands takes an all-island approach to map the diverse experiences of migrants in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Medicine, health and irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45
A wide ranging volume on medical history, that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the World Wars.
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The state as master
A new gendered approach to the rise of the modern state in Sweden over the long eighteenth century.
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Addressing the other woman
This book analyses how three artists – Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly – worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Hélène cixous
A lucid, original and inventive critical introduction to Helene Cixous (1937-). Royle offers close readings of many of her works, from Inside (1969) to the present. He foregrounds Cixous's importance for 'English literature' as well as creative writing, autobiography, narrative theory, psychoanal...
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Thomas pynchon
A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon
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The interpreters
This book analyses British attitudes on southeastern Europe in the period between 1870-1930.
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Churchyard and cemetery
Reviews the burial history of central North Yorkshire
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Siblinghood and social relations in georgian england
This book examines the impact siblings had on eighteenth-century English families and society. Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts, prescriptive literature, and portraiture it argues that siblings had to constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and pr...
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Made in france
This book explores the forces that structure life in France from the cradle to the grave. These rules, norms and power relations are the result of work conducted by a wide range of politicians, administrators, business people and activists. Some have changed recently, but most have resisted the c...
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Sweden and ecological governance
This is about policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance and uses the Swedish case study to ask whether it is possible to move form a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable development, as illustrated through the ‘Sustainable Sweden’ progr...
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Crisis music
Marching to the beat of punk rock and reggae, Rock Against Racism fought alongside the Anti-Nazi League against a resurgence of racist and fascist politics in 1970s Britain. This book analyses one of the biggest and most effective political mobilisations of the post-war period, demonstrating that...
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Novel horizons
Monograph on the history of the novel and of creative writing, from the English Restoration in the seventeenth century.
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Propaganda and counter-terrorism
A unique account of British and United States government's attempts to adapt their propaganda strategies to global terrorist threats in a post-9/11 media environment
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Immigration and social cohesion in the republic of ireland
In the last decade Ireland’s immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. This is the first major academic book to offer a detailed account of how immigrants in Ireland are faring and is the first to address the challenge of integration and social cohesion.
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Country houses and the british empire, 1700–1930
Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries
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Communism and anti-communism in early cold war italy
The books detects the struggle of Communism and anti-Communism as a key feature for the making of the political system in post-WWII democratic Italy, and presents it in its international context through a broad analysis of the main communication networks
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Into being
The acclaimed author of Sins of My Father shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir.Into being is an essential guide to writing radical and empowering memoir. Drawing on her experience as a memoirist and a teacher of creative writing, Lily Dunn presents the ground-breakin...
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The political writings of archbishop wulfstan of york
Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) is among the most important legal and political thinkers of the early Middle Ages. A leading ecclesiastic, innovative legislator, and influential royal councilor, Wulfstan witnessed firsthand the violence and social unrest that culminated in the fall of the E...
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Bound together
This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present.
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Women art workers and the arts and crafts movement
Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and in...
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