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Reimagining north african immigration
An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the depiction of immigration from North Africa in contemporary French culture.
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Screenwriters in french cinema
This volume explores the overlooked category of screenwriters in French cinema, from the coming of sound to the digital age. Using key figures as case studies, it considers how the role has evolved industrially and critically, and sheds light on screenwriting practices in the context of debates o...
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Ireland and the renaissance court
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the court culture of Ireland and the Irish from the late-medieval period through to the revolutionary upheavals of the 1640s. By drawing on English, Irish and Latin sources, it paints a vivid and detailed picture of Irish politics and society i...
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Anglo-french attitudes
This collection of essays written by scholars from a variety of disciplines is about a favourite game of Anglo-French intellectual life since the eighteenth century: the game of cultural transfers and comparisons between English and French intellectuals themselves.
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Britain and africa under blair
Critically explores Britain's fascination with 'doing good' in Africa under New Labour, and in particular under the premiership of Tony Blair, and, in so doing, sets out to explain the role of idealisation in international relations.
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Rethinking the carolingian reforms
This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture, and especially its perceived correctio (correction), reform or renaissance. When we consider authors who operated outside the direct sphere of influence of the court, a much more dynamic image of Carolingian culture c...
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Marie duval
Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847–1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work by women and establishing Duval as a unique b...
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Karl polanyi
This is the first work to offer a collection of Polanyi's texts never before published in English. The book presents articles, papers, lectures, speeches, notes, and draft manuscripts, mostly written between 1907 and 1923, with the exception of a few later texts. Organised thematically around...
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Ephemeral city
Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance
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The knight of the burning pestle
A back-in-print edition of this play by Francis Beaumont, one half of the leading playwriting partnership of Beaumont and Fletcher. Fully annotated, with a historical and critical introduction, detailed commentary and appendices.
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Northern memories and the english middle ages
This book argues that the image of medieval England created by writers of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries was deeply informed by medieval and modern Scandinavia. Protestant and monarchical, the Scandinavian region became an image of Britain’s noble past and an affirmation of its current g...
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The irish war on drugs
Using the catastrophic failure of the drugs prohibition policy in Ireland as a case study, this book exposes the illusory foundations of the monolithic and seemingly invincible international system of drugs prohibition and the 'war on drugs'.
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Tony garnett
Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most respected producers working in British television, responsible for both Cathy Come Home (1966) and This Life (1996-8). The book discusses the ways in which Garnett has shaped the role of the creative producer, and analyses his contrib...
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Lloyd george at war, 1916-1918
‘Lloyd George at War, 1916–1918’ refutes the traditional view that Lloyd George was the person most responsible for winning the Great War.
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Rural india facing the 21st century
A profound analysis of a broad range of issues, providing a masterly overview of rural development in India.
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The travel writings of marguerite blessington
This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.
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Religion, neuroscience and new physics in dialogue
Can we live with being merely a brain with a history of being souls? Can our supra-nature, learnt in the crucible of religion and expressed in theology, survive without being exiled to the quantum mysteries of consciousness? Our very survival depends on these questions being answered in this non-...
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The key to music’s genetics
Christian Lehmann brings his experience as a musicologist, singer and academic to this fascinating journey through the origins of music and its role in human development, culture and society.
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Museums and empire
Museums and Empire is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions if the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Gothic incest
Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764–1847.
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Law on the battlefield
Written by a former military lawyer, the book will be of interest to military commanders, their staff and legal advisers but also to officials in Foreign and Defence Ministries and non governmental agencies working in conflict situations, as well as staff of international courts and tribunals dea...
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Destination australia
In 1901 most Australians were loyal, white subjects of the British Empire with direct connections to Britain. Within a hundred years, following an unparalleled immigrationprogram, its population was one of the most diverse on earth. This book tells the story of this extraordinary transformation.
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Music technology panic narratives beyond piracy
When people develop technologies to distribute music, record labels act like it will destroy music. This book shows these narratives are about reconfiguring power.
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Communities in early modern england
This volume attempts to rediscover the richness of community in the early modern world - through bringing together a range of fascinating material on the wealth of interactions that operated in the public sphere. Divided into three parts the book looks at:the importance of place – ranging from th...
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The derby philosophers
This book focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals who strove to promote social, political and urban improvements which had national and international consequences. It examines a turbulent period of British history, an age of political and industrial revolution in which the...
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Planning for water security in southeast asia
This book examines how four communities in the rapidly developing cities of Southeast Asia have creatively solved growing environmental problems. It’s description of how community-level collaboration in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia provide new ways for thinking about how marginalized people ca...
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Israelpolitik
This book reinterprets the history of German–Israeli relations by examining the policies that East and West Germany implemented towards Israel in the early Cold War from an innovative and multinational angle.
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Working in a world of hurt
Focuses on doctors and nurses in wartime casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps
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Indian and chinese immigrant communities
This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributions give insight on the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business network...
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Gothic kernow: cornwall as strange fiction
Focussing on written and visual culture that is made in or made about Cornwall, this book argues that Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ‘Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic.
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Jax' house
Do old houses hold secrets? Can those secrets affect the lives of people who live there now? Jack O’Hagen has moved to a house in Cornwall that certainly has a secret – a secret it is determined to share.
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Poverty, inequality, and inclusive growth in asia
'Poverty, Inequality, and Inclusive Growth in Asia' examines why Asia needs inclusive growth, what policy ingredients an inclusive growth strategy entails, and how such a strategy can lead to benefits of growth being more equitably shared.
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Representations of renaissance monarchy
Representations of Renaissance monarchy analyses the portraits and personal imagery of Francis I, one of the most frequently portrayed rulers of sixteenth-century Europe. The distinctive likeness of the Valois king was widely disseminated and perceived by his French subjects, and Tudor and Habsbu...
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Spanish visual culture
This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital themes: emtion, location and nostalgia.
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Visions of empire
This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and...
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The films of luc besson
A fascinating and revealing set of essays discussing the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema
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Civilising rural ireland
Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the nation-state through the lens of political conflict and violence. Instead the book takes as its focus the numerous leaders, organisers, and members of the Irish co-operative movement.
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Mike leigh
Mike Leigh may well be Britain’s greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for t...
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English radicalism in the twentieth century
English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. This book explores, in historical context, the nature of this radicalism – its beliefs, practice and importance – in the twentieth century.
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Ai and ada
This volume first explores the potential of machine translation of literature; goes on to explore possibilities for artificial literary creation; and finishes by assessing recent spectacular progress in generative artificial intelligence (AI) – throughout, with reference to Vladimir Nabokov’s hyp...
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Colouring the caribbean
The first monographic study of the painter Agostino Brunias, this book offers a compelling, original analysis of his representation of race in the British colonial West Indies, reconsidering the way in which the artist’s oeuvre has previously been understood.
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Inside the russian revolution
This is the first republication of Rheta Child Dorr’s book Inside the Russian Revolution (Macmillan, 1917) that depicts the overthrow of the tsar as a positive, democratic move with hope of a Russia following the American path to constitutional democracy.
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Mother bombie
Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly’s comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs and the determination of their young servants to exploit their m...
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Horror and the horror film
‘Horror and the Horror Film’ is a vivid, compelling, insightful and well-written study of the horror film and its subgenres from 1896 to the present, concentrating on the nature of horror in reality and on film.
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Transnationalism and translation in modern chinese, english, french and japanese literatures
Drawing on the latest work in comparative philosophy and comparative literature, this book presents an innovative model of transnational literary exchanges.
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Spanish romance in the battle for global supremacy
By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative...
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Faith in the family
Assesses the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society
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The northern veto
A historical account and comprehensive assessment of the factors surrounding the referendum on an elected assembly in the North-East region of England, in November 2004.
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Swedish crime fiction
Swedish crime fiction became an international phenomenon in the first decade of the twenty-first century, starting first with novels but then percolating through Swedish-language television serials and films on to English-language BBC productions and Hollywood remakes. This book looks at the rich...
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Finding the way to 'long day's journey into night'
A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill t...
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Monarchies and decolonisation in asia
Provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies, and the monarchies of Asia, in the late colonial period, during the process of decolonisation, and in its aftermath.
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The lure of economic nationalism
The Lure of Economic Nationalism addresses the continued appeal of economic nationalism, placing it in both historical and contemporary contexts. It also considers its alternative, a rules-based, multilateral trading system.The book argues that going beyond zero-sum outcomes is better suited to a...
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History beyond apartheid
This book brings leading historians of South Africa together to consider new methodological and theoretical approaches within the field.
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The elizabethan conquest of ireland
This is a study of how the prosecution of the Nine Years' War in the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign impinged on government and society at central and local levels in the shires of England and Wales.
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Genteel women
This book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food.
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The trump revolt
The second entry in the Pocket Politics series provides an accessible account of the ideas and shifts that propelled Donald Trump to victory in the 2016 US presidential election and looks at the likely consequences of the result.
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Culture on drugs
Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology and criminology to cultural and literary studies and philosophy.
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Forever
The idea of transferring humans into humanoid bodies has been the theme for many eminent titles. This book’s unique contribution is its exploration of the legal questions and embedded philosophical issues that flow from being able to transfer a copy of a person’s mind into a synthetic body that l...
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South asia from the margins
Looks at the diversities of South Asian social History, focusing on Orissa. Examines the environment; health and medicine; conversion (in Hinduism); popular movements; social history of princely states; connections between the marginal social groups and nationalism; decolonisation; patriarchy; an...
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Walking in the dark
This beautiful and deeply personal book blends memoir and biography with literary criticism to offer a new perspective on the legendary American writer James Baldwin.
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Power of sage
The book constructs a new model for attaining power, challenging the traditional Machiavellian approach to construct power.
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Black resistance to british policing
Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain.
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Irish nationalism and european integration
Irish nationalism and European integration are enduringly powerful forces – each able to provoke momentous change in national identities, borders and governance. This book analyses the ways in which Irish political leaders have assiduously presented these two forces as complementary and, in so do...
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Charles robert maturin and the haunting of irish romantic fiction
A clear, theoretically-grounded, chronological study of Maturin’s six novels. A new critical paradigm by which to view and read Irish Romantic fiction. Offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Maturin and his fiction available today.
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What's in it for me?
Why do we hold the political views that we do? We often dwell on the self-interest of opponents, yet seldom reflect on our own. Considering five contemporary worldviews, Thomas Prosser argues that our views tend to satisfy self-interest. Paradoxically, awareness of self-interest makes us more ref...
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The french army 1750–1820
A thoroughly researched and clearly written account of the French military from the Revolution to the Restoration, exploring the evolving idea of merit
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Counterpractice
This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against the backdrop of the French women’s movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (1970–81)
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Representation, recognition and respect in world politics
This book addresses a critical issue in global politics: how recognition and misrecognition fuel conflict or initiate reconciliation. Using a detailed empirical investigation of the fraught bilateral relations between the US and Iran, the book demonstrates how representations of one state by anot...
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Women in exile in early modern europe and the americas
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes impo...
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Communists constructing capitalism
This book offers a novel account of how the Chinese Communist Party has achieved rapid economic growth while preserving political stability. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and challenging existing paradigms of political economy, it sheds light on the financial foundations of China’s evolving auth...
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Egypt
The book is a treatment of the British colony in Egypt from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, revealing deep-seated cultural and economic links, while also considering how the mundane concerns of ordinary colonials fared in a strategically vital imperial base, with all i...
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The british in rural france
A study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives.
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Urban crisis, urban hope
Urban Crisis, Urban Hope is an urgent, informed, and passionate critique at the crisis that has been allowed to develop in our cities, and a wide-ranging agenda for change to challenge all political and government institutions.
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The wise girl’s guide to freelance modelling
This book will provide aspiring freelance models with the tools to get started in the fashion industry. ‘The Wise Girl's Guide to Modelling’ contains invaluable advice on how to avoid the many pitfalls of the trade and get work without having to spend money.
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May alcott nieriker, author and advocate
May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.
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Connecting icts to development
“Connecting ICTs to Development” highlights over fifteen years of IDRC-supported research in the field through its Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) program.
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Chemical attraction
For Ben and Lily, two clinical trial participants with nothing in common other than mutual dislike, is this real love? Or is it merely a side effect of their prescription drugs?
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Reinventing marie corelli for the twenty-first century
‘Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century’ is a collection of essays about a novelist who once was the ‘second most famous Englishwoman in the world’ after Queen Victoria and whose books broke every previous sales record. The essays account for Corelli’s popularity and reintroduce h...
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Antonio pietrangeli, the director of women
This book re-examines the films of Antonio Pietrangeli, one of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, from a feminist perspective. Of the ten full-length films completed by Antonio Pietrangeli, eight featured a female protagonist. This attention to the female subject i...
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Politics, media and campaign language
‘Politics, Media and Campaign Language’ is an original, groundbreaking analysis of the story of Australian identity told through Australian election campaign language. Introducing the concept of identity security, the book argues that the story of Australian identity is characterised by recurring...
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Economic development of emerging east asia
This unique book provides comparative economic studies of Taiwan and Korea, and compares them mostly with Japan and the United States. Additionally, this study finds that, in terms of the real GDP per capita in PPP, these East Asian countries are still emerging in the world economy.
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Beckett and broadcasting
Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation defended at Åbo Akademi University (Finland), it has long been out of print. It is here republished with a sizeable new introduction focusing on the role of radio in Beckett’s œuvre.
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What about the workers?
This book explores the long-term relationship between the Conservative Party, trade unions, and the organised working class. It focuses on the question of why the Conservative Party for much of its history sought to accommodate the unions and why in the 1970s and 1980s it adopted a policy of excl...
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Jim crace
Philip Tew's study is the first extended critical examination of Crace's oeuvre and is based on extensive interviews with the novelist, including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007).
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The anthem companion to david riesman
The purpose of this book is to revisit the legacy of David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd, the biggest selling sociology book to date, and a highly influential public intellectual during the second half of the twentieth century.
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The social context of economic change in britain
Analyses economic growth in Britain under Thatcher in a variety of different social contexts.
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Dialogics of self, the mahabharata and culture
'Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History' explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogics.
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Trailblazing women of australian public broadcasting, 1945–1975
Trailblazing women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 presents a compelling feminist perspective of Australian radio and television history. It resuscitates the careers of a group of female producers who strategically defied the odds and used broadcasting as a site for their activism in...
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Travellers to the middle east from burckhardt to thesiger
An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
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Late modernist poetics
'Late modernist poetics' explores the uncanny afterlife of modernist ideals in the second half of the twentieth century. Contextually and theoretically wide-ranging, the book focuses on poetry of Britain, Europe and the United States.
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John galsworthy and disabled soldiers of the great war
The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy’s philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War. It makes available for the first time in a single edition the most significant of his compositions about the war disabled and examining ...
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Architecture and ekphrasis
This well-illustrated, accessibly written book examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Combining original archival material with cultural theory, the book considers the idea of the past and the role of space and time in t...
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Frontier narratives
This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and ‘renegades’ developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the ‘others’ thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostil...
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The european union and its eastern neighbourhood
This volume explores key issues that are currently at the forefront of the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey, the limitations of the Eastern Partnership with Belarus and Moldova, the position of a Ukraine in ...
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Detachment
An exciting and cutting-edge volume of essays, which collectively and singularly aim to challenge the conventions of connectivity and relationality in social theory and description through a serious and crucially ethnographic reflection on the category of ‘detachment’
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Thomas heywood and the classical tradition
This collection offers a groundbreaking study of Thomas Heywood’s fascinatingly individual engagement with the classics across his writing career. It considers the wide diversity of genres to which he contributed, including dramas, translations, compendia, and iconographical designs, and attends ...
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Artisans of the body in early modern italy
This study of barbers-surgeons and other artisans involved in the care and appearance of the body - jewellers, tailors, wigmakers, upholsterers - sheds light on the strong sociocultural affinities that existed in the Early Modern period between these apparently unrelated trades, challenging the d...
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