-
Anarchism and eugenics
This book traces the convergence between anarchism, as an anti-authoritarian, anti-statist political doctrine, and eugenics, the science of ‘race improvement’ in five countries between 1890 and 1940.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
The labour governments 1964–1970 volume 1
An analysis of Britain's domestic policy during Harold Wilson’s tenure as Prime Minister.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Jacques rivette
A complete survey – the first in English – of Jacques Rivette’s sixty-year career in French cinema, from the New Wave to the present day.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Taking place
This book presents examination of queer and feminist alternative art spaces in Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It explores how queer and feminist artists have responded to the institutions and histories they have inherited.
Regular price $44.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $44.95Unit price per -
Agricultural policy in europe
A unique comparative analysis of agricultural policy throughout Europe.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Female performance practice on the fin-de-siècle popular stages of london and paris
This book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, Loïe Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Ideas of monarchical reform
This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683–1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought.
Regular price $45.95Regular price $45.95 Sale price $45.95Unit price per -
Masculinities in politics and war
This book opens up new avenues in gender history by mapping masculinity’s part in making revolution, waging war, building nations, and constructing welfare states. Written in a highly accessible style, targeted at both students, professional historians and the interested general reader.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Constructing kingship
This book examines the relationship between the Capetian monarchs of France and the Crusades, and considers the challenge to political authority that confronted them following their failure to join the early crusades, and their less-than-impressive involvement in later ones.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Do good unto all
This volume explores the ideas, institutions, and experiences that shaped Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist charity in early modern Europe.
Regular price $140.00Regular price $0.00 Sale price $140.00Unit price per -
Conservative revolutionary
A biography of the historian and public intellectual Sir Lewis Namier from his origins in a secular Jewish family in Poland to recognition as the most important historian of his day, whose ‘revolutionary’ method was enshrined in the verb to Namierise.
Regular price $45.95Regular price $45.95 Sale price $45.95Unit price per -
The blair supremacy
Analyses the way that New Labour was built and sustained under Blair’s leadership
Regular price $45.95Regular price $45.95 Sale price $45.95Unit price per -
In the company of wolves
This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
The great labour unrest
This book analyses the battle for ideological and actual control of the Durham Miners’ Association between Liberals, socialists and syndicalists in the tumultuous period prior to the First World War.
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Political marketing
The book shows how political marketing - the design of government by focus groups and polls - spearheaded by Blair in the UK and Clinton in the US has spread round the world to countries as diverse as Brazil as well as New Zealand and Germany.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Leadership and social movements
Despite the explosion of social movement research in Europe and the US in the last 20 years, the question of leadership has been relatively neglected. This probing examination of the theory and practice of social movement leadership critically re-examines a series of classic cases.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Europe on the move
Europe on the move is the first book to address the dramatic and poignant refugee crisis that erupted during the First World War and that enveloped the entire continent. Written by specialists in the field it will appeal to all those who are interested in the era of the First World War and in Eur...
Read MoreRegular price $140.00Regular price $140.00 Sale price $140.00Unit price per -
Men and masculinities in modern britain
Men and masculinities provides a critical overview of ongoing debates in the history of masculinities and the making of men’s lives and ideas of masculinity in Britain between the 1890s and present day.It proposes a new agenda, urging histories to reflect on the enduring influence of patriarchy i...
Read MoreRegular price $36.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $36.95Unit price per -
Music, scholasticism and reform
This fascinating study looks at music and its intellectual context in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Drawing on a rich body of theoretical literature and manuscript sources, this book paints a detailed picture of the study of music in eleventh-and early twelfth-century Germany. It focuses on...
Read MoreRegular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Irish protestant identities
A major multi-disciplinary portrayal and analysis of the often overlooked Protestant tradition in Ireland.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
The women's liberation movement in scotland
The first book-length account of the women's liberation movement (WLM) in Scotland
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Market relations and the competitive process
The book, newly available in paperback, considers the social role of economic institutions in society and examines the various meanings embedded in the word 'markets', as well as developing arguments on the nature of competition as an instituted economic process, rather than as competition being ...
Read MoreRegular price $45.95Regular price $45.95 Sale price $45.95Unit price per -
The stalin years
This is a penetrating and up-to-date account of one of the dramatic aspects of 20th-century history. Published fifty years after Stalin's death, and fully revised and expanded, this second edition looks at the entire period of his rule including ideology, politics, development, social change, the...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Regular price $22.95 Sale price $22.95Unit price per -
Thomas hood and nineteenth-century poetry
This, the first modern critical study of a lyricist, humorist and social protest poet who was a household name throughout the Victorian period, explores the relationship between Thomas Hood’s playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Markets and power in digital capitalism
Philipp Staab takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the virtual realm, exploring how digital surveillance and evaluation practices have infiltrated every aspect of our lives. Staab's compelling analysis challenges us to confront the realities of surveillance capitalism and the urge...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Fertile expectations
An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book details the fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an “ideal” family size. The author situates fertility medicine, artificial insemination by donor, and child adoption ...
Read MoreRegular price $130.00Regular price $0.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Spain in the nineteenth century
Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to acting as a cultural entrepreneur, this volume explores the possibilities and uncertainties that unfolded in their reconfigured world
Regular price $140.00Regular price $140.00 Sale price $140.00Unit price per -
Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university
Lifelong learning, the arts, and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university maps the work of adult educators, teachers, researchers and graduate students from North America, Europe and Africa who use the arts in their university classroom teaching, their research and in service.
Regular price $52.95Regular price $52.95 Sale price $52.95Unit price per -
Travelling images
This book examines the borderlands of the art world and the relations between art and visual mass culture in modernity. It includes case studies on photocollage, window displays, fashion photography and contemporary fine art.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
The bonds of family
Tracing the activities of a single extended family – the Hibberts – this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain’s history and le...
Read MoreRegular price $45.95Regular price $45.95 Sale price $45.95Unit price per -
Edward the second
The introduction to this edition contains an analysis of the first quarto (including new evidence of its original dating) and a reconsideration of the play's complex relation to the Shakespearean histories that preceded and followed it. Charles R. Forker offers a discussion of Marlowe's use of so...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $22.95Unit price per -
Same–sex desire in early modern england, 1550–1735
Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550–1735: An anthology of literary texts and contexts is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and sexual acts.
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university
Lifelong learning, the arts, and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university maps the work of adult educators, teachers, researchers and graduate students from North America, Europe and Africa who use the arts in their university classroom teaching, their research and in service.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Plain ugly
This book examines the depiction of physically ugly characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented in the era, particularly with regard to gender and the construct...
Read MoreRegular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
The gothic and death
An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms.
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Intelligence and espionage in the english republic c. 1600–60
This book provides a rich survey of the early-modern ‘secret state’, intelligence gathering espionage, and the work of spies in the British late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth-centuries.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $0.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
In the shadow of history
From 1926 onward, Sinn Féin, which had been instrumental in the revolutionary period of 1919–23, faded into oblivion as a result of its intransigent and doctrinaire stance. This book unravels a chapter of history that has not been dealt with in detail until now.
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Between two worlds of father politics
Offers students a comparative analytical framework for ways of thinking about fatherhood and new insights into why some welfare states have ‘father-friendly’ social policies and why others don’t.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Science and the politics of openness
The book critically questions the assumption that making science more open and public could solve various issues around scientific credibility, trust, and legitimacy. Chapters in this book explore the risks and benefits of this perspective with relation to transparency, responsibility, experts an...
Read MoreRegular price $45.95Regular price $45.95 Sale price $45.95Unit price per -
Conceiving bodies
The Old English remedies for women’s reproductive ailments gesture to contemporary notions of bodily autonomy. Close examination of the remedies for menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, stillbirth, and abortion reveal distinctions among them, where previously they were understood reductively as wo...
Read MoreRegular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Painting her pleasure
Painters Marie Vassilieff, Émilie Charmy and Suzanne Valadon explored sexuality and questioned gender identity. Working in early twentieth-century Paris, these women contravened social mores, challenged traditional and avant-garde artistic practices and partook in the making of the modern nude.
Regular price $36.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $36.95Unit price per -
Framing cosmologies
Explores the ways in which the horizons of human worlds are imagined and engaged
Regular price $140.00Regular price $140.00 Sale price $140.00Unit price per -
A vision of battlements
A new edition of Anthony Burgess’s first novel, set in Gibraltar during the Second World War. Loosely based on Virgil’s Aeneid, the book describes the anti-heroic army career of Richard Ennis, a thwarted composer. The introduction and notes describe the publishing history and the autobiographical...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Critical theory and international relations
An introduction to critical theory in international relations summarising the history of critical thought in the discipline and its possible future.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Heroes and happy endings
Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Occupational health and social estrangement in china
This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Charlotte gainsbourg
Actress, singer, indie icon and fashion muse, Charlotte Gainsbourg has left her mark on the cultural landscape through her daring artistic choices and creative collaborations. This book traces the development of her star persona while simultaneously interrogating transmedia and transnational star...
Read MoreRegular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
The duchess of malfi
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchesss of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the often reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes have been augmented to cast further light on Webster'...
Read MoreRegular price $15.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $15.95Unit price per -
Intelligence, security and the attlee governments, 1945–51
A ground-breaking examination of the Attlee government's intelligence activities during the early stages of the Cold War, drawn from previously unavailable documents.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
John ford's america
This volume explores John Ford's preoccupations throughout his long career, showing how he attempted to come to terms with American history, with how America kept changing its relationship with history and how many of the myths of the ‘West’ were just that – myths.
Regular price $160.00Regular price $0.00 Sale price $160.00Unit price per -
Byron and italy
How did Italy Italianise Byron? And how did Byron Byronise Italy? These are the key questions that the volume sets out to answer.
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Trade unions and democracy
Explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy.
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Policing race, ethnicity and culture
The book explores interactions between police officers and citizens in European countries, asking how differences such as race, culture and ethnicity are brought up and in what way they shape these encounters.
Regular price $140.00Regular price $140.00 Sale price $140.00Unit price per -
Passionate politics
In May 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the world’s largest election. This book brings together a stellar team of economists, political scientists, sociologists, historians and geographers to explain why Indians voted the way they did.
Regular price $36.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $36.95Unit price per -
Feudalism, venality, and revolution
This book is about the most sweeping reform in the history of the French monarchy: the creation of assemblies at all levels of administration. The resistance of lords and office holders exposed their hereditary power over commoners, who sought to throw off their subordination when the crisis of t...
Read MoreRegular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Emigrant homecomings
Return migration has long been a significant but neglected aspect of international population movements thorughout the centuries. Emigrant homecomings is the first study to rectify this imbalance by analyzing the motives, experiences and impact of returners in a wide range of locations over four ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
No masters but god
A study in the writings of a transnational constellation of rabbis, scholars, activists, and theologians active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores how, through the lense of biblical, rabbinic, and kabbalistic literature, they developed themes of anti-authoritari...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Film modernism
An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Laurent cantet
The first book-length study of Cantet’s work in English. It explores his unique working ‘method,’ and discusses his very particular way of constructing films at the uneasy interface of the individual, the group and the broader social context.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Migrants of the british diaspora since the 1960s
This is the first book to explore the multiple country movement of migrants of the ‘British diaspora’ since the 1960s. It is an engaging oral history of migrant experiences and attitudes, based largely on intimate life histories which connect migration to life experiences like love and marriage, ...
Read MoreRegular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Historical epistemology and the making of modern chinese medicine
This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations.
Regular price $140.00Regular price $140.00 Sale price $140.00Unit price per -
Sound / image
This collection interrogates how sound/image aesthetics can enhance our critical appreciation of television, with reference to a range of television programming, including episodic series and serial dramas, sitcoms, science fiction, animation, horror, thrillers and period dramas.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Alison uttley: spinner of tales
An acclaimed biography of one of Britain's most popular writers
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
European labour movements in crisis
Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour markets. The book’s hypothesis has key implications for debates about labour movements and the EU and its engaging style will captivate scholars, students and poli...
Read MoreRegular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
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...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Failed imagination?
The main aim of this book is to explain how mainly American, but also British, policy makers have planned and largely managed to create an international order in their own image, the 'New World Order'.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
My voice: tomi komoly
Tomi'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. Tomi Komoly was born in Budapest, experienced the ordeals endured there by Hungarian Jews. He fled to Vienna and then England and went o...
Read MoreRegular price $23.95Regular price $23.95 Sale price $23.95Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $140.00Regular price $0.00 Sale price $140.00Unit price per -
University engagement and environmental sustainability
Details the challenges faced by higher education institutions in considering environmental sustainability
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
The post-crisis irish voter
Provides the definitive study of voting behaviour in the 2016 Irish election
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
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...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Agnes varda
The first introduction in English devoted wholly to Varda and aimed at a general and student audience. Places Varda's major films in the context of her whole oeuvre and follows the development of important themes across her work.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
The politics of unbelonging
The book offers a study of Roma racialisation. Through the idea of unbelonging it demonstrates how the community is placed in a position of visceral visibility by local, national and international institutions and media discourses. It critically evaluates how the unbelonged position impacts Roma’...
Read MoreRegular price $44.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $44.95Unit price per -
The uneven path of british liberalism
A historical study of the development of British Liberalism within the Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats, from 1956 to 2016.
Regular price $45.95Regular price $45.95 Sale price $45.95Unit price per -
Karel reisz
This first full-length critical analysis of the Czech-born, British director, Karel Reisz uses recent interdisciplinary methodologies to explore the crisis of political commitment and historical displacement in the context of the 1960s and ‘70s counter-culture.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Hanif kureishi
The first biography of Hanif Kureishi, based on his newly available personal archive.
Regular price $44.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $44.95Unit price per -
After the end
Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work studies the enduring legacy of Cold War culture in current debates and concerns around risk, security, borders, environmental justice, inequality and apocalypse.
Regular price $140.00Regular price $0.00 Sale price $140.00Unit price per -
The routes to exile
Analyses the experiences of Spanish Republican refugees in France
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Diversity management in spain
The author analyzes in depth three case studies, which have been at the forefront of the Spanish political and social agenda these last decades: education, the workplace, and political rights.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Death and security
A comparative study of memorialisation and reconstruction in post-terrorist bomb sites, which argues that security practices are fundamentally connected to death anxiety.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Creating the opium war
This book explores British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from 1792 to 1840.
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Negotiating relief and freedom
This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population, and the formal negotiations undertaken by colo...
Read MoreRegular price $36.95Regular price $36.95 Sale price $36.95Unit price per -
Class, ethnicity and religion in the bengali east end
This exploration of one of the most concentrated immigrant communities in Britain combines a fascinating narrative history, an original theoretical analysis of the evolving relationship between progressive left politics and ethnic minorities, and an incisive critique of political multiculturalism
Regular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
British politics in an age of reform
This work is a detailed examination of principal themes in the political history of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. It evaluates much recent research, links the politics of the elite with the politics of the people and seeks to explain significant developments with reference to both th...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $0.00 Sale price $29.95Unit price per
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
