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Beyond the spanish tragedy
Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Erne shows how Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries was formed
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Thomas ‘jupiter’ harris
This is the first biography of Thomas Harris: confidant of George III, ‘spin doctor’, philanthropist, sexual suspect, brothel owner, and the man who controlled Covent Garden theatre for nearly five decades.
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Ramon j. sender's 'cronica del alba'
Crónica del alba, is the first in an autobiographical series of nine novels by one of the most famous twentieth- century Spanish novelists, Ramón Sender.
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Heroic imperialists in africa
This book looks at imperial heroes from behind the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories from a radically new angle. It demonstrates how their reputations were made over several decades, and depicts the milieus and individuals who ...
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A history of the northern ireland labour party
This book is the first, definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force in twentieth century British and Irish politics that drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national di...
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Performance in a time of terror
This book explores the ways in which performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, focusing on examples of performed violence from Northern Ireland and Iraq. It also investigates how theatre-makers and performance activists have resisited violence in times of terror.a.
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British films of the 1970s
British Films of the 1970s offers highly detailed and insightful critical analysis of a range of individual films of the period. This analysis draws upon an innovative range of critical methodologies which place the film texts within a rich variety of historical contexts.
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Truth recovery in northern ireland
This book is a unique analysis of truth recovery in post-conflict Northern Ireland. It proposes a new model of victim and perpetrator dialogue that is entirely victim-centred, suggesting that only a ‘moral bottom line’ in which violence is dismissed as universally wrong can assists in the effect...
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The cooke sisters
A study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.
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Northern ireland and the crisis of anti-racism
Racism and sectarianism makes a sustained critique of official anti-racism, using the case of Northern Ireland to do so. Many of the prominent themes in the UK today have been central to discussions in Northern Ireland for decades. The book sketches out some elements of an emancipatory anti-racis...
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Engine of modernity
Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary moder...
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One hundred years of wartime nursing practices, 1854–1953
This book examines the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. It makes an excellent and timely contribution to the growing discipline of nursing wartime work. In its exploration of multi...
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Staging the old faith
Staging the Old Faith is the first book length study to examine Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged.Rebecca Bailey juxtaposes a detailed analysis of Queen Henrietta Maria’s ground-breaking performances which showcased to an elite audie...
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Two decades of market reform in india
This edited volume of essays investigates the series of neoliberal policy reforms implemented in India between 1991 and the present day, and assesses the impact this reform agenda has had upon both the Indian economy and the country’s population.
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World cinema and the visual arts
‘World Cinema and the Visual Arts’ combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. The films analysed encompass a wide geographical base, and have been drawn from a diverse array of cultural traditions.
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The world as it goes
Despite a recent surge of scholarly interest in Hannah Cowley’s works, her scandalous comedy The World as It Goes has never been published. This edition of The World as It Goes is supplemented with an introduction providing cultural, theatrical, historical and biographical contexts and contempora...
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Gendered urban violence among brazilians
Understanding and theorising the translocational, multiscalar, intersectional nature of urban gendered violence and resistance to it in Rio de Janeiro and London.
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Adaptation revisited
Offers a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, as well as bringing new material into the broader field of Television Studies. Surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing the unspoken assumptions and common misconceptions that underlie them and explores the prob...
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Great satan's rage
This book looks at how American rap/metal has engaged with America's defining role in the world after the Cold War. It offers a highly original approach in relating rap/metal to critical theories of economy and culture and introduces a new method of cultural analysis based on theories of negativi...
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Cinema and radio in britain and america, 1920–60
The book charts the evolving relationship between cinema and radio during the heyday of the two media and compares and contrasts their development in Britain and America
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Reframing health and health policy in ireland
This study demonstrates how governmentality can be used to understand some of Ireland’s contemporary health issues and dilemmas. By drawing on a range of empirical contexts, it explores the potential of governmentality to contribute to a critical politics of Irish health and health policy.
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Essential thesaurus construction
Many information professionals fail to find the published tools for subject-based organization that are appropriate to their local needs. This text describes the characteristics of some types of subject tool, and takes through the process of creating a system. The methodology employed is a techni...
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Reporting the raj
This book is the first analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British Government to manipulate press coverage as part of a strategy of imperial control. The press was an important forum for debate over the future of India and was used by signific...
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The debate on black civil rights in america
This book examines the development of the historiography on the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present day.
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Ideology and politics in britain today
Politicians still call themselves socialists, conservatives and liberals, but among these groups exist very different understandings of what these terms represent. This new book provides a clear, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the ideas and doctrines that have shaped, and will conti...
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The culture of the second cold war
The work examines the metapolitics of the Second Cold War. The focus is less on the detailed analysis of diplomatic history and processes in international politics, and more on the underlying attitudes and ideologies that have generated and sustained Cold War 2. The work examines the definition o...
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Banished potentates
An examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s.
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Science, spirituality and the modernization of india
‘Science, Spirituality and the Modernisation of India’ explores the lively transaction between science and spirituality in India over the last 150 years. The book addresses the tension between science and spirituality; how some key figures in India explored the relationship between the two in the...
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Irish adventures in nation-building
Irish Adventures in Nation-building consists of eighteen mostly-chronological essays examining the debates and processes that have shaped the modernisation of Ireland since the beginning of the twentieth century. The vantage points examined include those of prominent revolutionaries, cultural nat...
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A special relationship?
This book addresses the Anglo-American special relationship from the perspective of post-Second World War British governments.
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Developing africa
Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule
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Photography and social movements
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary analysis of a wide range of practices, amateur and professional, and of previously unpublished archival material is the first thorough study of photography’s interrelationship with social movements
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History matters
Written for everyone interested in women’s and gender history, History matters reaffirms the importance of viewing history from a distance and with feminist intent. Judith Bennett argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on rich, plausible, and well-informed history that is al...
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Burning the veil
During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women as part of a strategy of subverting the nationalist movement whilst also inflicting widespread violence. First comprehensive study in English of the role of Muslim women during the Algerian war, bringing a uniqu...
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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.
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Parliamentary reform at westminster
An authoritative analysis of the trajectory and outcome of reform of the UK parliament across the past century, addressing significant debates about the balance of executive-legislative relations in Britain, and which employs historical and institutional perspectives for the purposes of analysing...
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The age of internationalism and belgium, 1880–1930
Investigates internationalism using Belgium as its focal point; historically a major hub for transnational movements
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The capitalist mode of destruction
This book investigates capitalism’s mounting destructiveness. Tracing today’s economic, ecological and democratic crises to capitalism’s undemocratic use of the surplus, Panayotakis highlights the necessity of a democratic classless society, which would restore control of the surplus to those who...
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Paris and the commune 1871–78
Colette Wilson writes clearly and authoritatively and her original, scholarly and beautifully illustrated book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of the Paris Commune, its aftermath in the early years of the Third Republic and French cultural memory overall.
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The 1630s
An exciting collection of essays on the ‘personal rule’ of Charles I, whose inept and dangerous rule many historians feel put the country on the road to civil war
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Royals on tour
Travel by European and ‘native’ monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarch...
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Public information films
The book explores the full catalogue of the films produced by the Empire Marketing Board, General Post Office and Crown Film Units between 1930 and 1952. It identifies themes which both reflect the sponsors’ demands and the anxieties of the time as well as providing the foundations for the post-w...
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Public corruption
A fascinating, confrontational investigation of the nature of corruption, its narcissistic origins and destructive future.
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The truth about confident presenting
‘The Truth about Confident Presenting’ is a collection of more than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.
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The lived experiences of african international students in the uk
This study presents the findings from an investigation of the lived experiences of international students from sub-Saharan Africa in the United Kingdom. It demonstrates their reactions to immigration rules, the restrictive approaches to employment status, and how their legal consciousness is impa...
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Narrative art and the politics of health
This intersectional collection considers how literature, film, and narrative, more broadly, take up the complexities of health, demonstrating the pivotal role of storytelling in health politics.
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Fontamara
Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a controversial figure throughout his life. ...
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Preserving complex digital objects
This ground-breaking edited collection explores the challenges of preserving complex digital objects such as simulations, visualisations, digital art and video games.
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Britain and its internal others, 1750–1800
This book revisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses. Each case adjudicated the presence of outsiders in London – from Jews and Gypsies to Africans and Catholics.
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Joseph stiglitz and the world bank
The most influential and controversial speeches of Joseph Stiglitz are gathered together for the first time in this volume, with an enlightening commentary by Ha-Joon Chang.
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Art, politics and dissent
Art, politics and dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art.. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events, normally marginalised or overlooked, in the h...
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Healing with water
A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries
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Three seventeenth-century plays on women and performance
A groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The plays are John Fletcher's 'The Wild-Goose Chase', James Shirley's 'The Bird in a Cage' and Margaret Cavendish's 'The Convent of Pleasure'.
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Globalisation and ideology in britain
Examines the impact of globalisaton across the ideological landscape of British politics by profiling the discourse on globalisation of several political groups involved in making and contestign British foreign economic policy.
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Managing acquisitions in library and information services
A major update of this successful textbook. Takes full account of both online ordering and the purchasing of electronic materials Full of practical advice and real-life examples. The definitive text on procedures and practice in acquistions.
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Is digital different?
A landmark edited collection bringing together global experts on the impact of new technology on information services.
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Catholics and the ‘protestant nation’
This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading ‘Catholic historians’ and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography
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Jacques demy
The first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language.
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Charlotte gainsbourg
Actress, singer, indie icon and fashion muse, Charlotte Gainsbourg has left her mark on the cultural landscape through her daring artistic choices and creative collaborations. This book traces the development of her star persona while simultaneously interrogating transmedia and transnational star...
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Evelyn sharp
This is the first biography of a remarkable writer and incorrigible rebel. Evelyn Sharp’s story encapsulates the shifts in opportunities for talented Victorian women who survived into the mid-twentieth century.She was born into a privileged family in 1869 and became a very popular writer of schoo...
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Who governs britain?
This book analyses the 1970-74 Conservative Government’s failure to ‘depoliticise’ its role in industrial relations as it imposed a new legal framework to discipline trade unions. Through analysis of recently released primary documents, it provides new insights into the strategic failings and ind...
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Dangerous bodies
A detailed examination of how certain Gothic bodies have taken on mythical status within western culture.
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Same old
This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theory—steeped in philosophical, theoretical and political commitments to 'difference'—have obscured the important investments in 'sameness' that have been central to queer history. Same old dwells on the...
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Princes and peoples
This anthology focuses on Britain and France in a period critical to their development as great powers. Its emphasis is on the regions and nations of which these two states were composed, rather than on the monolithic states. The documents illustrate many facets of their history, from the persona...
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John of salisbury and the medieval roman renaissance
A reappraisal of the role that Roman classical sources, notably the works of Cicero and Seneca, played in the political thought of John of Salisbury, a leading humanist of the twelfth century.
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The making of british bioethics
The first history of bioethics in Britain
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British women of the eastern front
This book explores the experiences and contributions of British women performing active service across the Eastern Front in Serbia, Russia and Romania during the First World War, focusing on representation of that experience though a range of written records.
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The lord’s battle
This book examines the preaching and printing of sermons by royalists during the English Revolution. It shows how and why preaching became an indispensable tool for those who sought to resist the seismic changes in Church and state that England experienced between 1640 and 1662.
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Anticlerical legacies
This book offers a new study of Hobbes’s reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Col...
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Law across imperial borders
This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority.
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Placing faces
Explores the relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain
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A progressive education?
A Progressive Education? argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales.
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The demographic dividend and the power of youth
The book is a compendium of essays from around the world on how governments and institutions can effectively manage and take advantage of the demographic dividend. It highlights the role young people can play as actors of change.
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Sounding prose
This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century prose from The Netherlands. The essay provides a concise and an accessible introduction into the subject and presents an overview of this compellin...
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Homelands
A comprehensive study of war, population and statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918–1924.
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The conservative party and the extreme right 1945–1975
A comprehensive study of the relationship between the Conservative party and the far-right in Britain from 1945 to 1975.
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Go home?
An important intervention in one of the most heated issues of recent decades, this book investigates government campaigns to demonstrate toughness on immigration, and the wide-reaching consequences for migrants and citizens alike. engaged research.
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Holiday camps in twentieth-century britain
This book tells the fascinating story of the Butlin and Warner holiday camp chains that emerged in the 1930s. The camps became a cultural phenomenon deeply enmeshed in the social and cultural history of twentieth century Britain.
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Gothic renaissance
Collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance
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Land questions in modern ireland
Explores the nature and dynamics of Ireland's land questions during the 19th and 20th centuries, and also the ways in which the Irish land question has been written about by historians.
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The debate on the rise of the british empire
Examines the rise of the British empire and the various debates among historians of imperialism over the past two hundred years. It discusses why the empire is so attractive to historians, why there is so much debate and controversy surrounding the subject.
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Indian foreign policy
As India has risen economically and militarily in recent years, its political influence on the global stage has also seen a commensurate increase. From the peripheries of international affairs, India is now at the centre of major power politics. It is viewed as a major balancer in the Asia-Pacifi...
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Making socialists
Making Socialists combines a biographical study of a (nowadays) virtually unknown woman with an original exploration of several major themes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century political and educational history.
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Worrier state
This book investigates how different cultures of fear manifest in South African social and mainstream media, arguing that fear and other emotions are a critical lens for understanding contemporary life. It discusses the myth of ‘white genocide’; so-called ‘Satanist’ murders; township urban legend...
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‘who the devil taught thee so much italian?’
This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, especially Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England.
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After jews
The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world “after Jews”.
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British depth studies c500–1100 (anglo-saxon and norman britain)
‘British Depth Studies c500–1100 (Anglo-Saxon and Norman Britain)’ is designed for students and teachers preparing for the new GCSE ‘Anglo-Saxon and Norman England’ British Depth Study components of the Edexcel and AQA examination boards.
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Late victorian orientalism
Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) in order to investi...
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Legal duty and upper limits
This book offers innovative solutions to our democratic, economic, and ecological crises.
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A spectre in the stones
Lloyd Lewis is moving to yet another children’s home, but this one is different. It is possessed by the supernatural with poltergeists and a ghost creating havoc. Lloyd links the chaos to a nearby ravaged stone circle. But what is the link? And can Lloyd do anything to defuse this terrifying anar...
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The genres of renaissance tragedy
These twelve new essays show the variety and versatility of Renaissance tragedy and highlight the issues it explores. Each chapter defines a particular kind of Renaissance tragedy and offers new research on a particularly striking example. Collectively the essays offer a critical overview of Rena...
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Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century anglo-norman realm
Offers an important reconceptualisation of women’s role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages
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Labour, state and society in rural india
Drawing on fieldwork in rural South India over more than a decade, the book uses a ‘class-relational’ approach that focuses on ‘the poor’s’ iniquitous relations with others.
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Hands, wrists, fingers
Hands, Wrists, Fingers is a practical book offering concepts and tools to help musicians of all abilities become comfortable using their hands in healthy and expressive ways.
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Coalition britain
Looks beyond the sound and fury of the 2010 British general election campaign in search of the deeper causes and long-term consequences of the poll, placing the election in a broader context.
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Altered destinations
‘Altered Destinations’ addresses the complex interrelations of state, nation and identity in India through the medium of culture, and compellingly reframes the debate in the context of the Gandhian concept of swaraj.
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Household servants in early modern england
Using a wide variety of sources this lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, most multi-layered, most mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early modern England
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Passionate politics
In May 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the world’s largest election. This book brings together a stellar team of economists, political scientists, sociologists, historians and geographers to explain why Indians voted the way they did.
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