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  • Making contemporary theatre
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    Making contemporary theatre

    Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. The book opens with an introductory chapter which contextualises recent trends in approaches to theatre-making. In the ensuing eleven chapters, eleven different writer-observe...

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  • Theatre, activism, subjectivity
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    Theatre, activism, subjectivity

    In modern times of political confusion, when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated by Right, this book stress the necessity of recovering the Leftist ethos of solidarity, social justice, and care for the commons.

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  • Pink-pilled
    Pink-pilled

    Pink-pilled

    This daring book explores how and why women are radicalised into far-right movements online and offers advice for fighting back against this alarming trend.

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  • Monasticism and politics in Norman Italy
    Monasticism and politics in Norman Italy

    Monasticism and politics in norman italy

    A vivid, detailed and compelling contemporary account of the history of Montecassino during the age of the Gregorian Reform and of southern Italy under the rule of the Norman conquerors.

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    The reformation of the heathen

    A study of the Biblical ‘heathen’ idea in the religious culture of the Protestant Atlantic world, illuminating its role as a catalyst of reformation, colonisation and evangelism in early modern England, Ireland, Virginia and New England.

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  • Parliament and politics in revolutionary Britain and Ireland, 1640–60
    Parliament and politics in revolutionary Britain and Ireland, 1640–60

    Parliament and politics in revolutionary britain and ireland, 1640–60

    This is an exciting new collection of historical essays focussed on the institution of Parliament between 1640–60. It has a wide thematic, geographic and temporal scope and offers valuable insights about the future study of the period’s political history.

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  • Straight nation
    Straight nation

    Straight nation

    Straight Nation dissects nationalism in postcolonial Singapore, exposing its reliance on the governance of sexuality. Dispelling liberal ideas of the nation, the book highlights nationalism's threatening nature and calls for an expansive, non-identarian approach to dismantling the entrenched hete...

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    Lesbian bones

    Looking at practices of Polish lesbian artists, this book theorises queer women’s presence in Polish art at intersections with archives, history, literature, and affect across time, and proposes lesbian mutual legibility as method.

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    The comedy of errors

    This book offers a comprehensive performance history of The Comedy of Errors, examining how stage, screen and musical adaptations from the eighteenth century to today have reshaped Shakespeare’s farce in response to changing ideas of comedy, identity and social difference.

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    Identity in pakistan’s foreign policy

    This book on Pakistan’s foreign policy examines how Islamic identity, alongside security and economic interests, shapes diplomacy. By foregrounding religion and the Ummah, it challenges geopolitics-first accounts and highlights the power of ideas in international relations.

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    Crises, capitalist governance and the critique of liberalism

    Ruling the Ruins explores the challenges of capitalist governance in light of the intensifying economic-social-environmental disasters we face.

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    Citizen as diplomat

    Citizen as Diplomat examines the role of private citizens in conducting diplomacy and influencing international relations, a departure from the conventional understanding of diplomacy as the exclusive domain of state representatives.

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  • Surrealist women artists and mental illness
    Surrealist women artists and mental illness

    Surrealist women artists and mental illness

    Surrealists idealized feminine madness for its purportedly unfettered access to the unconscious. At the same time, an unusually large number of surrealist women artists, including Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo, experienced mental illness. Die these women find the dream of feminized, mad geni...

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  • Hybrid healing
    Hybrid healing

    Hybrid healing

    This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkl...

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    Inside independent producers limited

    Independent Producers Limited (IPL), a major British film group of the 1940s behind classics like The Blue Lagoon and Caesar and Cleopatra, remains largely overlooked in film history. Using unseen business records, this book reveals how IPL operated, reshaping its role and significance in British...

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    Histories of disability and emotions

    This global volume shows how emotions—from pain to pride—have shaped disability and been skilfully used by disabled people across history. Spanning eras from the early modern period to today, it reveals emotion as both a force that defines disability and a tool for resistance and change.

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    Radicalisation

    This vital work deconstructs radicalisation's global dynamics. Radicalisation: A critical and integrated perspective challenges existing biases, offering original insights into its associations with identity, race, ethnicity, and effective 'bottom-up' counter-strategies.

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    Tigers and the imperial imagination

    A study of British and French imperial cultures from 1700–2000, analysing how stories and representations of tigers in science, art, hunting, and state documents shaped understandings of nature, authority, and empire across European–Asian networks.

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    The gulf monarchies and turkey

    This book explores the relations between GCC states and Turkey during the Syrian civil war and the subsequent period following the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime by the end of 2024.

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    Femininity and constructing national identity in spanish postwar cinema, 1939–45

    A comparative study of censorship of the portrayals of female wartime heroism in Spanish films of the immediate post-Civil War to the end of WWII in relation to Hollywood cinema of the period, and the creative ways Spanish directors undermined the censors through comedy and melodrama.

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    Imaginative pasts

    Imaginative pasts explores how imagination permeates the researching and writing of history. It positions ‘thinking’ with the imagination as a central but often overlooked element of historical understanding.

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    Anarchist writing in the contemporary united states

    This book frames U.S. anarchism since the 1970s as a vitally important site of subversive literary production. It develops an innovative critical mode aligned with anarchist commitments, in which anarchist writers’ refusal of representation, and their preference for direct action, come to the fore.

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    Viewing the asylum

    Viewing the asylum takes readers into the Georgian and Regency asylum for the first time. Exploring how past cultures managed, navigated and responded to the display of mental illness, Jamieson sheds essential light on the politics and practices of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century asy...

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    Shout for freedom

    Bringing together histories of politics, sound, and music in new ways, Shout for freedom offers a radical reassessment of the significance of the Chartist movement in British political history, arguing that the movement’s extraordinary eruption and forced silencing reveal both the nature, and the...

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    Legible bodies

    This study examines dress, appearance and the female body in Victorian literature and women’s magazines, showing how sartorial detail shaped representations of sexuality, selfhood and social critique across realist fiction and wider visual and material culture.

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  • Modern Carmelite nuns and contemplative identities
    Modern Carmelite nuns and contemplative identities

    Modern carmelite nuns and contemplative identities

    This book examines how modern Catholic contemplative nuns in the Netherlands envisioned their spirituality, offering a contextualised exploration of the discourses they adopted to shape their identity as a female spiritual elite in a male-dominated church and society.

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    Outsiders, outcasts and eccentrics

    The book explores the relationship between deviance, medicine, and experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By discussing the potential of the novel concept of communities of experience, the book highlights the historical processes of defining and negotiating deviance.

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    Responding to the jacobite threat

    This book examines how various states and governments collectively responded to the Jacobite threat during the long eighteenth century. It emphasises the strategies and methods employed to dismantle Jacobitism and prevent a Jacobite restoration, thereby ensuring the Protestant Succession and the ...

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  • Music and antiracism in Brazil
    Music and antiracism in Brazil

    Music and antiracism in brazil

    Music and antiracism in Brazil explores how Brazilian music-making from the mid-1960s to the early 2000s challenged racist practices and discourses. With fresh readings of the most representative compositions, performances and initiatives from the period, it offers a comprehensive, critical appra...

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  • Beginning Irish Studies
    Beginning Irish Studies

    Beginning irish studies

    An Introduction to the discipline of Irish Studies that will be of use to both students and academics.

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  • The disruption of the British party system
    The disruption of the British party system

    The disruption of the british party system

    The traditional two-party system is disrupted: six parties fight each other for votes and three parties fight to control government. This book shows the likelihood that no party will be able to form a government after the 2029 general election.

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  • Walking in the Middle Ages
    Walking in the Middle Ages

    Walking in the middle ages

    The first book-length study of walking in the Middle Ages, this volume examines philosophy, hagiography, miracle narratives, drama, conduct books, literary texts (including Barbour, Langland, Chaucer, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Kempe), and manuscript illuminations. Essays question periodised claims a...

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  • Beginning literary animal studies
    Beginning literary animal studies

    Beginning literary animal studies

    The book is an introductory text for students of literary animal studies and for those with a general interest in animals in creative prose, fiction and poetry. Case study examples show how the basic themes of animal studies can be used to reveal meanings in the texts, and to add value to an unde...

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  • Artificial Intelligence and international security
    Artificial Intelligence and international security

    Artificial intelligence and international security

    Artificial Intelligence and International Security critically examines the rise of AI-driven Arms Races, exploring its ethical, legal, and security challenges while proposing solutions for responsible deployment and global stability.

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  • Shaping nineteenth-century Art History
    Shaping nineteenth-century Art History

    Shaping nineteenth-century art history

    This volume gathers twenty-eight essays that reassess nineteenth-century art, criticism and historiography, reflecting Elizabeth Prettejohn’s influence and offering a state-of-the-field account grounded in close looking, interdisciplinary analysis and renewed attention to visual and material prac...

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  • Critical theory and peace processes
    Critical theory and peace processes

    Critical theory and peace processes

    Drawing from Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, this book examines the dynamics of peace processes in Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the France intervention in Darfur. It furthers the critical theory research agenda by providing a novel understanding of the role of civil society in shaping t...

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  • Jed Mercurio
    Jed Mercurio

    Jed mercurio

    This book provides the first critical study of Jed Mercurio’s television work, tracing how his authorial style developed across medical drama, thriller and genre television, and reassessing authorship, populism and power in contemporary British broadcasting.

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  • Head in the game
    Head in the game

    Head in the game

    Head in the game critically analyses the global concussion crisis in sport from sociocultural perspectives. This edited collection features essays from humanities, social science, and scientific scholars who analyse how the concussion crisis came to be and provide guidance for developing ethical ...

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  • Ida Lupino
    Ida Lupino

    Ida lupino

    This book delivers a critical study of British-born Ida Lupino as both a constructed star image and an underappreciated filmmaker who worked across independent and mainstream cinema during Hollywood’s classical era.

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  • Toronto New Wave cinema and the anarchist-apocalypse
    Toronto New Wave cinema and the anarchist-apocalypse

    Toronto new wave cinema and the anarchist-apocalypse

    This book explores the Toronto New Wave, a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with anarchist themes and aesthetics

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  • Invasions
    Invasions

    Invasions

    The first book-length, historical study of invasion-scare and future-war fiction in Britain before and during the First World War in half a century, and the definitive cultural and political history of the genre.

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  • The nineteenth-century present
    The nineteenth-century present

    The nineteenth-century present

    This collection explores how a range of nineteenth-century authors, from their own historically contingent perspectives, were concerned with many of the same issues as scholars today looking back at the nineteenth century.

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  • Beyond the BBFC
    Beyond the BBFC

    Beyond the bbfc

    This work explores the censorship of film at local level and charts the chronological development of local film censorship systems, mechanisms and apparatus. Using archival material from a range of different locations across the UK, a more nuanced and complex picture of local film censorship acti...

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  • A victor's peace in Iraq
    A victor's peace in Iraq

    A victor's peace in iraq

    This book offers a detailed analysis of peacebuilding in Iraq following the territorial defeat of ISIS. Focusing on key aspects such as power-sharing, security provision, transitional justice, and reconciliation, it reflects on the role of the state but also of key actors such as tribes and milit...

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  • Film festival programming as precarious labour
    Film festival programming as precarious labour

    Film festival programming as precarious labour

    An essential book about the lived experience of film festival programming workers, the precarious employment relationships to which they are often subject, and the festival crunch culture that is driving both workers and the film festival circuit to breaking point.

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  • Terrorism and the self
    Terrorism and the self

    Terrorism and the self

    Focussing on the case study of West German leftist armed groups active in the 1970s, this book explores post-terrorist autobiography as literary genre. It makes the case that post-terrorist autobiography must be taken seriously as both cultural phenomenon and crucial source of knowledge.

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  • Live art, Scotland and the curation of culture
    Live art, Scotland and the curation of culture

    Live art, scotland and the curation of culture

    This book offers a critical history of live art in Scotland, tracing how artists, curators and organisations have created the infrastructures that support interdisciplinary and experimental performance across three decades of cultural change.

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  • Money’s infrastructures
    Money’s infrastructures

    Money’s infrastructures

    This book looks at money’s infrastructures as combinations of materiality, space, desire and political economy, by observing a cryptocurrency company in cross-border payments and situating it in the longer history of money’s technologies.

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  • Healers and politics in African history
    Healers and politics in African history

    Healers and politics in african history

    This edited volume focuses on the under-researched topic of specialist healers as political actors and agents of change in African history, privileging a multi-disciplinary perspective on the complex dynamics of healing and politics across the continent during pre-colonial, colonial and post-colo...

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  • Anthony Burgess and America
    Anthony Burgess and America

    Anthony burgess and america

    This book is a critical biography and literary cultural analysis of Burgess’s interactions with the United States of America and American society, using newly discovered documents, archival research and Burgess’s entire canon to investigate the profound influence of America on Burgess’s life and ...

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  • Technology, health, and the patient consumer in the twentieth century
    Technology, health, and the patient consumer in the twentieth century

    Technology, health, and the patient consumer in the twentieth century

    This book examines the little explored relationship between a variety of medical, informational, and health technologies and patients’ roles as consumers from the early twentieth century to the present. It shows how patients as consumers have shaped such technologies, and equally, how technology ...

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  • Passages
    Passages

    Passages

    This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today’s apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'.

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  • The Catholicism of literature in the age of the Book of Common Prayer
    The Catholicism of literature in the age of the Book of Common Prayer

    The catholicism of literature in the age of the book of common prayer

    This book demonstrates the continuity of Roman Catholicism in English Literature in a Biblicist age which established the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer. Key figures covered include William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Queen Henrietta Maria, John Donne, Margaret...

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  • Reformed identity and conformity in England, 1559–1714
    Reformed identity and conformity in England, 1559–1714

    Reformed identity and conformity in england, 1559–1714

    This volume is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on how Reformed theology and ecclesiology related to one of the most consequential issues between the Elizabethan Settlement (1559) and the Hanoverian Succession (1714), namely conformity to the Church of England.

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  • Medieval afterlives
    Medieval afterlives

    Medieval afterlives

    This book shows how early drama traditions were transformed, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval Afterlives offers insight into how sixteenth-century people understood and adapted performance spaces, stage technologies, characterisation, and p...

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  • The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)
    The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR)

    The european conservatives and reformists (ecr)

    This study argues that the political activities of the ECR ought to be recognised as the main voice for conservatism in Strasbourg promoting 'Anglosphere' free market values and the role of NATO in international relations.

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  • Screen borders
    Screen borders

    Screen borders

    A visual cultural history of contemporary borders and border outlooks through a film and television tour of Europe. Screen borders explores what screen representations of European borders, with France as a starting point, reveals about popular and institutional outlooks on European borders.

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  • Health Impact Assessment and policy development
    Health Impact Assessment and policy development

    Health impact assessment and policy development

    An instrument and approach, Health Impact Assessment, seeks to assess the health impacts of projects, programmes and policies in a systematic way. This book provides for the first time an analysis of how and why HIAs informed local policy development in both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland.

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  • Navigating platform power
    Navigating platform power

    Navigating platform power

    Navigating Platform Power unpacks the relationship between digital infrastructures, political agency, and resistance. The book cultivates a theoretical dialogue across disciplines and perspectives and provides essential conceptual tools for understanding—and transforming—the conditions of politic...

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  • Making our own art history
    Making our own art history

    Making our own art history

    This book traces how Feminist Arts News shaped the women’s art movement by documenting and producing feminist cultural politics, drawing on archival research to explore its role as a decentralised network for artistic, political and intellectual exchange.

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  • Everyday refusal of racial capitalism
    Everyday refusal of racial capitalism

    Everyday refusal of racial capitalism

    An ethnographic analysis of refugees’ negotiations of labour mediation and racialised infrastructures in Germany, showing how everyday practices of resistance illuminate the operations and contradictions of contemporary racial capitalism and its logistical regimes.

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  • Being Catholic in post-Reformation England
    Being Catholic in post-Reformation England

    Being catholic in post-reformation england

    As a study of the role of life-writing in the conduct of religious dispute amongst English Catholics, and in the formation of the religious and political identity of English Catholicism in the period down to 1640, the book seeks to place life-writing and memory at the centre of the post-Reformati...

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  • Labour, mobility and learning to be local
    Labour, mobility and learning to be local

    Labour, mobility and learning to be local

    Drawing upon ethnographic observations and interviews with over 90 workers in Jordan, this book reveals how aid-as-work constructs and produces concurrent, polarised understandings of ‘the local’ that workers literally learn on-the-job.

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  • Multiple and One
    Multiple and One

    Multiple and one

    This book examines queer and trans* global art practices through creolization, opacity and curatorial knowledge-making, offering decolonising approaches to art history across transcultural contexts from South Florida to Europe, the Americas and east Asia.

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  • Inspecting the home
    Inspecting the home

    Inspecting the home

    This book is a comparative urban history of the implementation of early public legislation in nineteenth-century France. Through exploring the fusion of religious, medical, political, architectural, and bureaucratic topics and drawing on a range of archival sources, this book offers an essential ...

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  • Reimagining Britishness
    Reimagining Britishness

    Reimagining britishness

    This volume explores the evolving concept of Britishness, examining how the nation has been imagined across time through diverse sources and interdisciplinary perspectives. It highlights the entangled temporalities of the past, present, and future, offering critical insights into the complex dyna...

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  • Nomadism in Afghanistan
    Nomadism in Afghanistan

    Nomadism in afghanistan

    This book unpacks one of the most complicated and forgotten conflicts with a long history: the nomad-sedentary conflict in Afghanistan that has been continued in the modern era accelerated by the state formation process.

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  • Proxy war in Afghanistan
    Proxy war in Afghanistan

    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.

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  • Joining up in the Second World War
    Joining up in the Second World War

    Joining up in the second world war

    Joining up explores men’s encounters with representations of the First World War in interwar Britain, and illuminates how these informed their understandings of the First World War and how those understandings shaped their attitudes to Second World War enlistment and their conceptions of masculin...

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  • Higher education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
    Higher education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Higher education and the un sustainable development goals

    Higher education’s role in the sustainability agenda is shifting. This volume examines how universities can move beyond SDG 4 to become transformative actors in addressing global ecological and social crises, offering perspectives from the Global North and South.

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  • Narrative painting in nineteenth-century Europe
    Narrative painting in nineteenth-century Europe

    Narrative painting in nineteenth-century europe

    How do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.

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  • Revolution in China and Russia
    Revolution in China and Russia

    Revolution in china and russia

    This book compares how Russia and China maneuvered nationalism through communist revolutions and explains why they followed different paths in reorganizing empires.

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  • Empathy industry
    Empathy industry

    Empathy industry

    Empathy industry examines how global markets shape fiction about the Global South for Global North consumption. Through the case of the post-9/11 anglophone Pakistani novel, it offers a sharp critique of human rights storytelling with implications for world literature at large.

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  • Beautiful doom
    Beautiful doom

    Beautiful doom

    The first multi-authored volume on the work of contemporary British writer Dennis Kelly, Beautiful Doom examines the full range of his work for stage and screen, from new writing to adaptations of classic playtexts, musical theatre, and original works for television.

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  • Translating Petrarch in early modern Britain
    Translating Petrarch in early modern Britain

    Translating petrarch in early modern britain

    This collection of essays explores the translation of Petrarch’s vernacular verse (Canzoniere and Triumphi) in early modern Britain, from the first Tudor translations to its many literary transformations and cultural re-appropriations in the Elizabethan and Stuart periods.

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  • Fashioning Italian youth
    Fashioning Italian youth

    Fashioning italian youth

    Fashioning Italian youth examines representations of Italian young people’s style trends and bodily practices in teen magazines, Musicarelli films and TV programmes. It explores changes in the media construction of young people’s generational, national and gender identity, and contextualises them...

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  • Enid Marx’s material modern
    Enid Marx’s material modern

    Enid marx’s material modern

    This book reassesses Enid Marx’s patterns as sites of queer history, imperial modernity and material innovation, offering an archival and contextual study of her designs within interwar British culture, craft networks and racialised constructions of the ‘primitive’.

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  • Housing justice
    Housing justice

    Housing justice

    A groundbreaking collection examining housing as a site of both dispossession and liberation under contemporary racial capitalism. Through global case studies, contributors reveal how structural violence operates through dwelling while documenting grassroots struggles for just habitation beyond c...

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  • Militarism in the lifeworlds of children
    Militarism in the lifeworlds of children

    Militarism in the lifeworlds of children

    Bringing together original research by scholars of all career stages and spanning five continents, this edited collection reveals the complexity of childhoods’ myriad intersections with militarism both within and beyond zones of conflict.

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  • The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry
    The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry

    The narrative grotesque in medieval scottish poetry

    The narrative grotesque introduces a new framework for reading medieval texts that rupture conventional poetic boundaries and create unsettling fusions of poetic forms and narratological subjectivities.

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  • Screening Sherlock
    Screening Sherlock

    Screening sherlock

    A cultural history of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in film and television from early cinema to the present.

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  • Demystifying informal urban design and planning
    Demystifying informal urban design and planning

    Demystifying informal urban design and planning

    Borrowing from Isaiah Berlin’s foxes vs hedgehogs and Gregory Treverton’s puzzle vs mystery solving analogies, this book encourages urban designers to be multitaskers like foxes, rather than hedgehogs who can do one thing right. Thinking this way allows them to better engage with and unravel the ...

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  • Painful pleasures
    Painful pleasures

    Painful pleasures

    The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture.

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