Castles and colonists

This book is the first to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire, an Ireland of colonizing English farmers and an imported Protestant elite living in fortified manors and medieval castles

None past the post

The latest book in the long-running Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensable account of the remarkable 2017 British general election. Leading experts explain why Theresa May and the Conservatives lost their majority, and analyse how the other political parties and voters responded to...

Religion, regulation, consumption

This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark.

Twenty-first-century fiction

Provides a collection of in-depth readings of British writers that have come to prominence in the 21stcentury.

Michaelmas term

Michaelmas Term is one of five satiric city comedies that the young playwright Thomas Middleton wrote for the boy players of St Paul's Cathedral, sometime before 1607. Set in a vividly detailed, realistic urban milieu at the start of London's social season, the play comes alive through the centr...

Gothic death 1740–1914

Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914.

Sports law and policy in the european union

This book argues that the EU is receptive to the sports sectors claims for special treatment before the law. The book investigates the birth of EU sports law and policy by examining significant court decisions, the possibility of exempting sport from EU law, sport and the EU treaty, and more.

European social democracy during the global economic crisis

Assesses how social democratic parties have responded, at the national as well as at the European Union level, to the 2008 financial crash

Proxy war in afghanistan

This book is about proxy war and the politics of state-wrecking in Afghanistan and examines how proxy war undermined the US-led state-building project in Afghanistan.

Pluriversal sovereignty and the state

This book explains how the processes of ‘total territorial rule’ at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a ‘pluriverse’ of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome...

Following franco

This book interrogates the interrelationship between culture and politics during the Spanish transition to democracy. Drawing on both high and popular culture, it critically interrogates the stakes of the Transition and reveals how its consequences continue to inform political debate.

Chantal akerman

This new book on internationally acclaimed film director Chantal Akerman provides an illuminating overview of her filmmaking to date and an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style.

Civvies

Explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War

William parsons, 3rd earl of rosse

A revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s

Volunteering in the united kingdom

A comprehensive and original overview of evidence about the patterns and impacts of volunteering. A rigorous, novel and realistic assessment of the contributions of voluntary action to British society, and of the scope for expanding them.

The towns of italy in the later middle ages

The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages.

Francophone africa at fifty

Explores the complexities of France's role in Africa over the past century

From reason to practice in bioethics

This anthology gathers together original works from some of bioethics’ most celebrated scholars. Focused on and around the works of John Harris, the book addresses the most debated issues in contemporary bioethics, and will serve as an excellent text and resource for students, scholars, and pract...

Women's work

Women’s work challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour (as material reality and philosophical concept) shaped the lives and writings of a number of women authors working in the second half of the long eighteenth century

Conservatism for the democratic age

This book offers a new interpretation of the Conservative party’s revival and adaptation to democratic politics in the early twentieth century. New insights are provided into how the Conservatives met the challenges provided by class, gender and regional identities and the means by which the part...

The scottish family tree detective

The Scottish family tree detective is a practical, user- friendly guide to research in family history – in locating the ancestors and exploring their background. Its aim is to provide sign-posts to the past and to solve problems.

Shakespeare's london 1613

Incorporating material published and plays performed, Shakespeare’s London 1613 creates a narrative and analysis of this crucial year. Political events, such as the death of the young Prince of Wales and the marriage of the royal daughter, changed the country forever.

Defining events

This book re-visits and re-thinks some recent defining events in Irish society. Each chapter focuses on an event that has occurred since the start of the twenty first century. Some were high profile, some were ‘fringe’ events, others were widely discussed in popular culture at the time. A number...

Television mockumentary

This is the first detailed study of the rich vein of mockumentary television programmes, covering series such as The Larry Sanders Show, The Daily Show, and the British and American versions of The Office to discuss how producers have experimented with mockumentary as a distinctive approach to st...

An archaeology of innovation

This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, a...

Everything harder than everyone else

From abstinence to ego, mastery to addiction, rage to reinvention, our compulsions are intertwined with our personas. Darkly funny and vividly penetrating, Everything Harder Than Everyone Else explores our deeper selves and asks: what are your limits?

The futures of feminism

This book makes the case for an inclusive form of socialist feminism that puts multiply disadvantaged women at its heart. It moves feminism beyond contemporary disputes, including those between some feminists and some trans women. Its combination of accessibility, new thinking and academic rigour...

Debating civilisations

Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology.

Siblings and sociology

Drawing on innovative qualitative data sources, Siblings and sociology demonstrates the sociological significance of sibling relationships, explaining why siblings matter as a relational form capable of influencing us throughout the life course and as a lens through which to re-imagine familiar s...

Cheated not poisoned?

This book provides the first comprehensive evaluation of Britain’s food laws from the 1860s to 1930s and the first analysis of the Victorian anti-adulteration legislation for 25 years.

This england

A celebration of Englishness in the sixteenth century. Appeals equally to students of early modern history and its literary culture, presenting a view of 'Tudor England' and offering a firmer historical background to evaluating the English Renaissance.

The origins of the first world war

A unique collection of hundreds of diplomatic and military documents on the origins of WWI: newly-discovered archival sources as well as documents not previously available in English. It includes a comprehensive scholarly introduction covering the most controversial issues in the debate on the or...

Divided isles

In 2019, Solomon Islands made international headlines when the country severed its decades-old alliance with Taiwan in exchange for a partnership with Beijing. The decision prompted international condemnation and terrified security experts. This penetrating investigation into the switch sheds lig...

Keynes and marx

The book develops a sympathetic Marxist critique of Keynes. Keynes’s insights, particularly into unemployment, money and finance and the importance of state intervention gain greater critical purchase when re-worked on Marxist foundations and doing so also enriches Marxism.

The irish voter

This pioneering analysis uses the results from the first ever Irish election study to provide a comprehensive survey of the motives, outlook and behaviour of voters in the Republic of Ireland. Building on the foundations laid down by previous work on comparative electoral behaviour, it explores l...

Richard attenborough

The first detailed scholarly and authoritative analysis of Richard Attenborough’s work as a filmmaker

Mediterranean quarantines, 1750–1914

This volume provides new perspectives on the modern history of quarantine in various locations across the European and Islamic Mediterranean.

Eu security governance

EU security governance provides the first comprehensive treatment of the EU as a security actor. It covers four dimensions of security - assurance, prevention, compellance and protection - that range from military interventions to state-building efforts to internal security in the age of terrorism.

Child soldiers in international law

Can the use of children as soldiers be effectively regulated at an international level? Child soldiers in international law examines how international law has developed to deal with this problematic and emotive issue.

Bestsellers and masterpieces

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the ‘modern canon’ of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval studies.

Immigration and housing in the republic of ireland

Examines the lived housing experiences of recently arrived migrants living in inner city, town and small town locations in Ireland. Building on the concept of ‘housing careers’, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of migrants’ ‘housing pathways’.

Peacemaking in the middle ages

This study explores the making of peace in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries based on the experiences of the kings of England and the kings of Denmark. It offers a vision of how relationships between rulers were regulated and maintained in a period before nation states and internati...

Gender and warfare in the twentieth century

'Gender and warfare in the twentieth century' is a collection of essays that explores the way in which issues of gender impacted upon twentieth-century warfare. A range of specialist contributors provide exciting, accessible and very readable essays covering a range of wars and textual media.

Roots of the pax americana

This fascinating book examines how and why Americans built an informal trading empire and why the British Empire needed to be removed before a Pax Americana could be built. It offers a systematic explanation for the rise of this super empire, and explains in detail how it is governed.

Political marketing and british political parties (2nd edition)

Political parties use market intelligence to listen to the public, develop a product to suit and communicate it before the election and in government, raising concerns about treating voters like consumers, how to communicate delivery and managing political parties like businesses.

Piercing the bamboo curtain

A comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson's China policy based on a range of recently declassified government documents. This book explores the administration's relationship to both the Vietnam War and the Cultural Revolution and offers a new perspective on Johnson's capacity as a foreign policy le...

Voices from the underworld

Embracing an ontological approach to religious phenomena, this study traces the origins and development of Chinese Hell deity worship now prevalent in Singapore and Malaysia. Written for academics and the interested public, it challenges a priori assumptions vis-à-vis the diversity of present-day...

Political shakespeare

The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and exploits political, cultural and ideological forces. Ten years on, this second edition presents...

The invention of spain

The Invention of Spain explores cultural relations between Britain and Spain during the century 1770-1870; a dynamic and often troubled relationship between two Imperial powers at a period of turbulence and change.

The last yugoslav generation

The last Yugoslav Generation charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s

Regulatory quality in europe

This book focuses on the capacity of European governments and the EU institutions to deliver high quality regulation. Drawing on comprehensive research and an original survey, it shows how regulatory quality can be measured and appraised - thus appealing both to academicsand to policy-makers invo...

The sociology of unemployment

An analysis of the experience and governance of unemployment

Crafting design in italy

Crafting design in Italy is the first book to examine the role that craft played in post-war Italian design, one of the most celebrated design episodes in the twentieth century. Craft was vital to the development of Italian design, and it has been so far overlooked.This book examines the multiple...

Reading, writing and the influence of harold bloom

Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom takes the work of the greatest living literary critic and discovers what it is like to read ‘with’, ‘against’ and ‘beyond’ his work.

Eleventh-century germany

Three of the most important chronicles of eleventh-century Germany were composed in the south-western duchy of Swabia. The Swabian chronicles are an indispensable resource to the student of the changing loyalties and conflicts of eleventh-century Germany.

Popular victorian women writers

'Popular Victorian women writers' is a collection of essays on a variety of women writers working within the Victorian literary marketplace. Diverse and inclusive, the great strength of this book is that its emphasis on neglected writers and refreshing new angles on more widely known authors se...

Richard wainwright, the liberals and liberal democrats

A biography of a long-standing Liberal MP. As well as the revival of the Liberal Party and the formation of the Liberal Democrats, it examines his experiences as a Conscientious Objector in the Second World War; his work in the Methodist Church; his role in the resignation of Jeremy Thorpe and in...

Political issues in ireland today

Political issues in Ireland today addresses the important current topics in Irish politics. Readers will find it a valuable resource on the important policy debates and for evaluating major social changes.

Terror and terroir

This book traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a militant collective of winegrowers who have used protest and violence to push back against attempts to modernise the French economy and state and the wider impacts of globalisation.

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.

The european union and industrial relations

This is the first book to provide a clear overview and innovative analysis of the multiple ways the European Union affects industrial relations.

Art, ethnography and the life of objects

This book is a scholarly and lively account of the interactions between art and ethnography in Paris in the pre-WW2 period, drawing upon a diverse range of primary and archival materials: non-western art, anthropological expeditions, museum displays and works by artists in Paris.

Colonial discourse / postcolonial theory

The issues of colonialism and imperialism have recently come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. Disciplines such as history, literature and anthropology are taking stock of their extensive and usually unacknowledged legacy of Empire. At the same time, contemporary cultural theory has...

'the better class' of indians

This book examines the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. It argues that class served as the primary register through which British polite society interpreted and applied other social distinctio...

African perspectives in international investment law

This book discusses trends in foreign direct investment in the African continent, the benefits and challenges that it presents for African States, and Africa’s participation in the international investment law regime more generally.

Rescaling the state

Rescaling the State provides a theoretically-informed and empirically-rich account of the process of devolution undertaken in the UK since 1997, focusing in particular on the devolution of economic governance.

Re-evaluating irish national security policy

The first major academic investigation of Irish national security policy as it has operated since 9/11. It draws on unprecedented access to Ireland’s security and intelligence agencies; over twenty senior personnel were interviewed.

Shakespeare's mystery play

Volumes of influence

Explores the work of a number of key writers and important books within the academic disciplines of politics and international relations. It revisits and re-evaluates some of the landmark books, and assesses the contribution of some of the most influential writers who have played a significant ro...

Bauman and contemporary sociology

This book offers an incisive and original perspective on the works of Zygmunt Bauman, perhaps the greatest sociologist of the late twentieth century. It examines the limitations of his approach while recognising the importance of his legacy as a theorist who insisted on the need for moral engagem...

Neither left nor right?

This book provides a comprehensive and considered account of the nature of Liberal Democrat electoral politics in contemporary Britain, exploring the specific challenges facing the Liberal Democrats in their struggle for identity, distinctiveness and, most importantly, votes.

Race, nation and empire

This book is about the ways in which questions of race and empire have figured in British history writing since the late 18th century.

Maurice pialat

One of the most gifted French directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Rebert Bresson. This is the first book-length study of his work in English.

The culture of craft

Peter Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined by technology. One of the key questions discussed in the book is what makes the difference between a craft and a modern technology.

Sir thomas more

The best edition of the play in print. Gives a radical re-examination of the manuscript, and relates step by step to the process by which the play acquired its final form. Accounts for every single word and mark found in the manuscript - reproduces rejected or alternative passages at the end of t...

Irish home rule

Irish Home Rule considers the pre-eminent issue in British politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. It is the first account to explain the various self-government plans, to place these in context and examine the motives for putting the schemes forward. The book distingui...

Colonial exchanges

When European powers colonised the globe, they spread not only political power but also ideas. Yet those within colonised societies did not receive those ideas passively. They instead sought to transform or repurpose them, often in surprising or ambiguous ways. This volume illustrates a variet...

British asian fiction

This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Written in accessible prose, it offers original new readings of works, among others by Salman Rushie, V. S. Naipaul, Hanif Kureishi, Ravinder Randhawa, Atima Srivastava, Moni...

Labour, british radicalism and the first world war

This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War.

The wounds of nations

Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as memb...

Displacement

This book aims to develop global conversations around refuge. Through an interdisciplinary, transnational and historical set of chapters, the authors develop new theoretical frameworks for scholars working on the forced displacement of people around the world, including refugees, stateless person...

Inside the english education lab

Inside the English education lab collection has a dual focus. It offers a critical examination of the academies programme, and it interrogates methodological practice in education research. Overall, it argues that academies reproduce rather than reform inequalities, and that there is political sa...

Literature in contexts

This book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, and it seeks out – in a series of contextualising experiments – contexts which are text-specific, or author-specific, or literary rather than historical, putting forward a distinction between ‘deep’ and ‘broad’ contexts.

Diaspora diplomacy

This book examines the reasons behind the Turkish state’s unprecedented recent interest in its diaspora, details new political activism in Europe among the Turkish diaspora and explores how Turkey’s growing sway over its overseas population has affected intra-diaspora politics and Turkey’s diplom...

French origins of english tragedy

Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period.

British railway enthusiasm

The first book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. The postwar train spotting craze swept most boys (and some girls, despite railways being coded as a male business) into a passion for railways. These people invigorated different sectors in railway enthusiasm’s life world - from railway mode...

Lehman brothers

Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, Oonagh McDonald reveals the decisions that led to Lehman’s collapse, investigates why the government refused a bail-out and whether the implications of this refusal were fully understood. In clear and accessible lan...

Anarchism and utopianism

The first book-length treatment of the relationship between anarchism and utopianism reveals the anarchistic influences active in the history of utopian thought. It provides fresh perspectives on academic and activist debates about ecology, alternatives to capitalism, revolutionary theory and pra...