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Georges franju
The fullest study of Georges Franju to date, and the first book on him in English since 1967
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Turkish immigration, art and narratives of home in france
Turkish immigration, art and narratives of home in France argues for a cultural, rather than a sociological or economic, approach to understanding how immigrants become part of their new country.
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Bulletin of the john rylands library 99/2
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.
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Critical security in the asia-pacific
This book offers an accessible account of often-neglected realities of marginalisation and vulnerability in the region, and a powerful argument for the empowerment and security of the most vulnerable. It Considers issues such as tension on the Korean peninsula, environmental change, Indonesian co...
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Decolonisation in the age of globalisation
Drawing extensively on the declassified British archives and Chinese sources, this book explores how Britain and China negotiated for Hong Kong’s future, and how Anglo-Chinese relations flourished after 1984. This original study argues that Thatcher was a pragmatic neoliberal, and the British dip...
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Jean-jacques beineix
This volume is the first to examine, in either French or English, the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix, often seen as the best example of the 1980s cinéma du look, with cult films, such as Diva and Betty Blue (37º 2 le matin).. After an introduction which places Beineix in the context of the 1980s a...
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Politics personified
The first study of the role of commercial imagery in nineteenth-century politics, Politics personified shows how visual images projected a favourable public image of politics and politicians. Drawing on a vast and diverse range of sources, this book highlights how and why politics was visualised.
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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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Knowledge production in higher education
Understanding how knowledge is produced in higher education about Europe and the MENA requires an open, interdisciplinary and interregional approach. This volume systematically challenges the dynamics and realities that go beyond dominant European-MENA-centric accounts, while avoiding the pitfall...
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Internal exile in fascist italy
This book is an accessible history of internal exile’s origins and practices under Fascism and of its representation in film, literature and memoir.
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The metamorphosis of autism
This is the first detailed exploration of the history of autism in the UK. Drawing from extensive and highly original archival research as well as investigations of published literature it describes the political, social and institutional background which made the study and increased diagnosis of...
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Rocks of nation
Considers how national fantasy has been constructed through a wide range of narratives that have described rocks and landscape not merely as inert substances but moving living beings.
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Chronicles of the revolution, 1397–1400
A range of material covering the 'tyranny' and deposition of Richard II and the usurpation of the throne by his cousin, who became King Henry IV.
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Paranoid visions
Paranoid visions explores the history of the spy and conspiracy genres on British television, from 1960s Cold War series through 1980s conspiracy dramas to contemporary ‘war on terror’ thrillers. The dramas analysed include Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Edge of Darkness, A Very British Coup and Sp...
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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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Labour and working-class lives
This collection of essays deals with the latest research on British labour history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It has been written by leading British historians, such as Ken Brown, Malcolm Chase and Matthew Worley, in honour of Professor Chris Wrigley
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Turkey: facing a new millennium
Traces the process of the the acceptance of Turkey into the European Union .
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Managing change
This book is a guide to how economic policy is made in modern Britain. It is designed to help the reader understand how the policy process works: who the key actors are, the links and the gaps between theory and practice, and the difficulties of making policy in the real world.
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The fringes of citizenship
This book offers a socio-legal enquiry into the position of Roma as citizens in Europe. Rather than questioning the exceptionalities of Roma as a minority, it seeks to understand how citizenship in liberal democracies is constructed to marginalize certain minorities.
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Troubles of the past?
This collection considers the increasingly central role that memory plays in determining contemporary politics and the future of Northern Irish society. Using an inter-disciplinary approach, it considers how competing narratives of the past are constructed, re-constructed, commemorated and then h...
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The ngo care and food aid from america, 1945–80
This book on the humanitarian NGO CARE offers a unique historical insight into the successes and crises of one of the major private humanitarian players throughout the second half of the 20th century.
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The cinema of iciar bollaín
Director, actress, scriptwriter and producer, Iciar Bollaín is one of the liveliest of contemporary young Spanish filmmakers and the first female director to have had a film (También la lluvia, 2010) shortlisted by the American Film Academy. Through detailed analysis of film form, socio-cultural ...
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The english republican tradition and eighteenth-century france
The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by English republican ideas in eighteenth-century French moral and political thought
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The unimagined community
The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. The book pursues the provocative claim that in its early phase the conflict was not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle betwee...
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Balancing the self
Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volume’s wide-ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and profes...
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Negotiating sovereignty and human rights
Shows how competing interpretations of sovereignty and human rights and the different visions of world order that they imply fed into the transatlantic debate over the ICC and transformed this debate into a conflict over the normative foundations of international society
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Galatea
A brand new Revels Student Edition of John Lyly's most popular and enchanting play
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Mrs dalloway
Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers readers new to Virginia Woolf a lively introduction to this timeless classic, while providing established lovers with a wealth of information about the novel’s writing, publication and reception.
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Between the salt and the ash
Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage from Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral, exploring thirteen-hundred years of social change and asking what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal.
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James baldwin review
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.
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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.
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Intellectual disability
This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and ...
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South african london
South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and émigré South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London played in the development of South African letters.
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Making the british empire, 1660–1800
This book is based on the latest research, and involves stimulating new ideas from some of the most important scholars working in the field of imperial history. It ranges across politics, religion, economy, law and geography in order to offer challenging perspectives on the nature and origins of ...
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Water and fire
The story of Noah’s Flood is one of the Bible’s most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons, ranging...
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Annotated chaucer bibliography
An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010
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Stories of women
Why is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a motherland? Stories of women is a pathbreaking study of the perenially fascinating relationship between foundational fictions of the nation and gendered images. The book focuses critically on postcolonial spaces ranging from West Africa...
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Shaping the royal navy
Provides a new understanding of the Victorian engineering professions, and their rise within the British government and Royal Navy
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Dissolute characters
Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.
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Jacopo da varagine's chronicle of the city of genoa
This is the first English translation of Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa. It broadens the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life, providing an engaging introduction to medieval Genoa, civic culture, Dominican composition and the ‘historical Jacopo’.
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The black atlantic’s triple burden
This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity.
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Songs of seven dials
Centring on a 1927 libel trial, this book tells the story of the cosmopolitan London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 1920s and 1930s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today.
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When nothing works
What caused the UK’s cost of living crisis, and how can we rebuild? Setting out the concept of liveability, this book argues that rather than focus on increasing wages, we need to make life more liveable through foundational services and social infrastructure.
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Empire and nation-building in the caribbean
This original and exciting book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies.
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Eternal light and earthly concerns
This book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle Ages.
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Manchester unspun
An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city, from council leader Sir Richard Leese to Sir Alex Ferguson and Tony Wilson.
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War and politics in the elizabethan counties
Reassesses the national war effort during the Elizabethan wars against Spain (1585–1603). Drawing on a mass of hitherto neglected sources, it finds a political system in much better health than has been thought, revising many existing assumptions about the weaknesses of the state in the face of m...
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Political and religious practice in the early modern british world
This volume explores the theme of religious and political practices in early modern Britain.
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Women and the shaping of british methodism
A response to the prominent Methodist historian David Hempton’s call to analyse women’s experience within Methodism, this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century.
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Performing care
Performing care explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care.
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The marketing of political parties
The book discusses, employing the findings from empirical research, the role of political marketing within the UK General Election of 2005.
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Cinema, democracy and perfectionism
Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life.
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The italian resistance
Anthology of key extracts, in Italian - both literary and non-literary.. Introduction and notes in English.. Contains material which would mesh well with various standard set texts, such as Pavese, Bittorini, Calvino, Viganò.. A unique selection - no competing Italian edition.
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The neurologists
Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists
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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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Religious franks
A unique collection that offers fresh and original perspectives on some of the most important themes in Frankish history
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The stukeley plays
The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character
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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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Julio medem
This, the first book-length study of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem in English, contains profound analysis of his life and films in the context of contemporary Spain and World cinema and is based on original interviews with Medem and many of his collaborators by the author, an establish...
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Folklore
This is the definitive guide to British folklore. Written by two of the country's leading experts, it covers everything from wizards and witches to UFOs and internet fanfiction.
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Our common wealth
This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of public ownership in the United States, arguing that it is more widespread, popular, and efficient than is commonly understood.
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Blackmail, scandal, and revolution
This important study, newly available in paperback, examines the activities, adventures, publications, and influence of the most venomous critics of the late Bourbon monarchy. These were the French exile libellistes who flocked to London to publish scandalous or sexually salacious pamphlets in t...
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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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Critical theory and social pathology
Axel Honneth’s critical theory of recognition has failed the Frankfurt School. A new social-theoretical foundation is urgently needed. As this book argues, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm are crucial allies in this task.
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Modern french visual theory
Offers approachable, clear and original accounts of French thinkers who specialise in visual theory, with connections explained and explicated between chapters; looks at those thinkers who have been neglected in the Anglo-American world thereby expanding and diversifying the perception that reade...
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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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Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in northern europe
This book underscores the centrality of refugees to the workings of current dynamics of social and cultural membership in the welfare state. The contributions look into the meaning of the welfare state, as represented in legal and discursive practices, and the imagination of those seeking to buil...
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Impure thoughts
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines, including literary studies, history, sociology and gender studies.
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Women's medical work in early modern france
Situates the practices and perceptions of women’s medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change.
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Reconstructing lives
Through the narrations of war-injured individuals and MSF humanitarian workers, the book explores healing and rehabilitation process in all its complex forms: physically, emotionally and symbolically.
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Democracy in latin america
This book addresses the nature of "democracy" in contemporary Latin and Central America. It offers insight into the processes and institutions of the different types of political systems and the challenges to them from the Left and popular movements. Lievesley questions how embedded democracy is ...
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The victorians since 1901
An important and stimulating volume surveying changing attitudes towards the Victorians in academia and popular culture in the twentieth century. Essential reading for students of Victorian Studies, Modern History and Cultural Studies.
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Enlightening enthusiasm
The first comprehensive approach to enthusiasm, with each chapter looking at its religious, social, cultural, political and medical implications
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Experiencing war as the 'enemy other'
An original and engaging study which examines the impact of World War Two on the Italian community in Scotland.
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Medicalising borders
Foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of a network of researchers the book demonstrates that current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of bio-political powe...
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The gentleman's mistress
This book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage, family, kinship and gender, it challenges assumptions about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to elite culture.
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Conspiracy in the french revolution
Fears of conspiracy and political terrorism are not confined to our own time – they were central to the French Revolution. This is the first major study of political conspiracies at this momentous epoch in history.
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How blair killed the co-ops
A detailed examination of social enterprise development under New Labour, which, though rarely reported elsewhere, represented a major and deliberate political rupture with the wider Cooperative Movement, of the same order of political magnitude as Blair’s earlier repudiation of Clause Four of it...
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Gay men and the left in post-war britain
When the personal became political it changed British politics for ever. Gay men and the left, available in paperback for the first time, explores the enormous impact that gay politics had on the landscape of post-war Britain.
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Christianity and democratisation
This book explores the contribution of different Christian traditions to the waves of democratization that have swept various parts of the world in recent decades. Written in an accessible style, it will appeal to students of politics, sociology and religion, and prove useful on a range of advanc...
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Masters and servants
Illustrates the centrality of domestic politics to colonial rule and the ways in which mastery over servants was a key expression of colonial power
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Queen and country
Detailed study of same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945
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Political enthusiasm
This book traces the changing ways enthusiasm has been understood politically, exploring how political actors use enthusiasm to motivate allegiances, how we have come to think on the dangers of enthusiasm in democratic politics, and how else we might think about enthusiasm today.
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‘everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950
The volume explores the shaping of ‘everyday health’ in different contexts since 1950. It shows how different aspects of identity affected experiences of health and wellbeing.
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Popular reading in english c. 1400–1600
Lectures and research students in cultural history, medieval and early modern studies and literary studies
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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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New challenges for documentary
'New challenges for documentary' provides a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and a fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practive. This second edition brings together many new contributions both from academics and film-makers.
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The hippie trail
Tracing the history of the Hippie Trail and those who followed it, this book explores the motivations and experiences of these young travellers, mapping their everyday interactions with locals and the joys and hardships of independent budget travel.
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My voice: adash bulwa
Adash's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Adash Bulwa experienced harrowing ordeals in the concentration camps of Belzec and Buchenwald. He later emigrated to England and became...
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Queer muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film
This book interrogates the depiction of same-sex desire in contemporary literature and film by artists of Muslim heritage. .
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Murky water
This book makes a powerful contribution to the debate on the UK water system, exposing the problems and arguing that a radical overhaul is crucial for a sustainable future.
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Martial masculinities
This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society.
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Garden cities and colonial planning
A study of European planning ideas in the form of garden city concepts and practices in their broadest sense, and the ways these were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations
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Everything must change
Taking its cue from Michel de Montaigne, this book asks what COVID-19 can teach us about the ‘art of living’. It examines eight themes from a philosophical perspective, including attitudes to old age, populism and life under lockdown, arguing that the crisis presents opportunities to create a mor...
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