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Irish catholic identities
Explores the historical developments that shaped Irish identity and linked it so closely to Catholicism
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The templars
This unique collection of translated sources offers a valuable insight into the lives of those who joined, supported and attacked this most fascinating and enigmatic of institutions. This book charts the origins of the Order through to the circumstances of its suppression and dissolution.
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Jack clayton
A personal and fascinating account of the career and achievement of an important, much-loved director; Jack Clayton.
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Bestsellers and masterpieces
Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the ‘modern canon’ of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval studies.
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Victorians in theory
This book will fascinate anyone interested in the Victorians or theory. Each chapter pairs a poet with a theorist: Robert Browning meets Jacques Derrida; Christina Rossetti encounters Luce Irigaray; Matthew Arnold is after Michel Foucault; Gerald Manley Hopkins dreams with Jacques Lacan; and Eliz...
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The new inn
The New Inn is one of the most neglected of Jonson's plays which is now finding a new and appreciative audience. The spelling has been modernised and the text updated and corrected for this paperback edition. There is also a critical introduction, helpful appendices and a commentary which explai...
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Welsh missionaries and british imperialism
This book follows Thomas Jones, the first Welsh missionary from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, now one of the most Christianised parts of India. It foregrounds broader political, scientific, racial and military ideologies that mobilised the Khasi Hills into an interconnected network of imperial cont...
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The right in latin america
A comprehensive look at radical and mainstream right-wing movements in Latin America, examining their influence and strategies in shaping regional politics.
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Indispensable immigrants
Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late-medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and vis...
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God's only daughter
The first full-length study to be devoted to Una, the beleaguered but ultimately triumphant heroine of Book One of The Faerie Queene
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Montaigne and shakespeare
This book is not a mere study of Shakespeare’s debt to Montaigne. It traces the evolution of self-consciousness in literary, philosophical and religious writings from Antiquity to the Renaissance and demonstrates that its early modern forms first appeared in the Essays and in Shakespearean drama.
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Men with stakes
Moves beyond a focus on gothic machinery and adaptations of literary gothic to consider television gothic in light of recent scholarship on the mode itself.
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Women in england, 1275–1525
This collection of sources demonstrates the variety of evidence that survives of English women in all walks of life from the time of Edward I to the eve of the Reformation. The sources are introduced by a substantial overview of current thinking about English medieval women below the level of the...
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Imperium of the soul
A new interpretation of the creative work of well known British imperialists of the late nineteenth and early 20th century, exploring their links with the revolutionary psychological theories of Freud.
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The culture of regionalism
The Culture of Regionalism is the first international comparative study of regionalism, and provides a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalism
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Cyberprotest
An exploration of contemporary radical internet activism in Britain.An exploration of contemporary radical internet activism in Britain
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Judith shklar and the liberalism of fear
This book is both an exploration of Judith Shklar’s liberalism of fear and an examination of the proper role and limits of political theory. It advances a novel interpretation of Shklar’s mature work, one that emphasises its value monism. It also defends a value pluralist approach to resolving mo...
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Style and meaning
Approaches to the detailed analysis of film and related questions about interpretations and value are once again being widely debated in film studies. Style and meaning is the first edited collection for many years to focus on these matters. The essays - which include contributions by establ...
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In and out of bloomsbury
Illuminates Virginia Woolf and several contemporary writers and artists through new research and discoveries.
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The fantasy fiction formula
A guide to the nuts and bolts of fantasy writing that illustrates techniques with examples drawn from published fantasy fiction and offers plentiful drills and exercises to help students hone their writing skills.
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Writing imperial histories
This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual trends in Imperial...
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John lyly and early modern authorship
During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that claim seriously, asking how and why Lyly was considered the most important writer of his time.
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African football migration
African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African players have become actors in the global football industry. It reveals the meanings associated with migration in post-colonial Africa, and the implications of (im)mobility for the personal and professional life trajectori...
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William trevor
Offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor
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Borders of desire
Borders of Desire is a collection of studies from the eastern borders of Europe, particularly the Baltics and the Balkans, that take a novel approach to borders and the work they do. Instead of viewing borders only as obstructions to the fulfillment of desire, this book shows how borders produce ...
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My voice: hans rose
Hans'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. Hans Rose witnessed the devastating impact of Kristallnacht in Germany before his family moved to England and his father was interned on...
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Pauper policies
A fresh perspective, which reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars
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Crank it up
Jason Statham is Britain’s most important post-millennial male film star. This book examines his work throughout a career encompassing film, television, music videos, multi-media platforms and video gaming.
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Tamburlaine the great (revels student edition)
Expanded footnotes designed to help readers from all levels of familiarity with Elizabethan drama. Emphasis on the play as a theatre text - informative stage-directions. Stimulating introduction, which makes something of a break from the orthodox style .
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Greenery
Greenery blends current ecological concerns with informed analysis of medieval literature to arrive at new readings of late medieval English texts. At the same time, this process offers ways to evaluate eco-criticism and expand its remit from its predominant focus on Romantic and Modern English a...
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Death in modern theatre
This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged.
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Heresy and inquisition in france, 1200–1300
Exposes the inner workings of inquisitions in medieval France through expert translations of primary sources.
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Photography and social movements
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary analysis of a wide range of practices, amateur and professional, and of previously unpublished archival material is the first thorough study of photography’s interrelationship with social movements
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The british labour party and twentieth-century ireland
With contributions from a range of distinguished Irish and British scholars, this collection of essays provides the first full treatment of the historical relationship between the Labour Party and Ireland in the last century, from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair.
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Islam in british media discourses
This book describes how non Muslims use the news to inform themselves about Islam and Muslims. It does so by exploring how media institutions function in society and how its practices affect the production of images and symbols about Muslims and Islam, as well as their influence on audiences.
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The cinema of álex de la iglesia
The first book in English about Álex de la Iglesia, critically acclaimed former protégé of Pedro Almodóvar, and one of the highest grossing directors in Spain and Latin America. De la Iglesia’s cinema is representative of a new generation of Spanish and European directors who combine avant-garde...
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Mothers and meaning on the early modern english stage
Examines the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth and James, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and the increasingly popular Puritan conduct books
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John dewey
Arguing that John Dewey should be read not as a 'local' American thinker but as a philosopher of globalisation, this book shows how he sets out an evolutionary form of global and national democracy, one that has not been fully appreciated even by contemporary scholars of pragmatism.
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Abba abba: by anthony burgess
Anthony Burgess’s ‘hybrid’ novel has been out of print in the UK for almost twenty years. Paul Howard’s new edition restores the original text and demystifies Burgess’s engagement with his Italian and English sources.
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Immigration and social change in the republic of ireland
Immigration and social change in the Republic of Ireland addresses citizenship and constitutional change, returned emigrants, the economic contribution of immigrants, the exploitation of migrant workers, asylum seekers and forced migrants, immigrant communities, politics, integration models and s...
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Contemporary korean cinema
The first in-depth, comprehensive study of Korean cinema offering original insight into the relationships between ideology and the art of cinema from East Asian perspectives. Combines issues of contemporary Korean culture and cinematic representation of the society and people in both North and So...
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Malherbe, théophile de viau and saint-amant
This volume offers a representative yet concise selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. It also provides supporting documentation to bring out the unique literary personality of each, and to help make their poetry as accessible as possible to a m...
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John hume and the revision of irish nationalism
Exploring the politics of one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how John Hume helped to change the thinking of Irish nationalism, and lay the foundations of the Northern Ireland peace process.
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Volpone, or the fox
The most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date
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Reading popular prints 1790–1870
Each chapter of this stimulating book collects a wide variety of images show the different ways that historical events can be represented. This revised second edition has many new illustrations which further assist the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century anglo-norman realm
Offers an important reconceptualisation of women’s role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages
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Hanif kureishi
The first book-length study of one of Britain's most successful young writers. His work in a range of genres, from drama to film, fiction and short stories, has elicited widespread critical acclaim and - at times - provoked sharp condemnation. Provides a detailed account of his work to date, from...
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Legacies of the magdalen laundries
Magdalen history has long been marginalised. Even as women's activism and contributions are included in new histories of the revolutionary era, the lives of women regarded as marginal are still excluded. This collection examines how Magdalen history can contribute to a more nuanced, inclusive und...
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My voice: elena grosskopf
Elena'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. Elena Grosskopf grew up on the Austrian-Italian border and escaped to England with her brother during Mussolini's antisemitic regime.
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Irish women and the creation of modern catholicism, 1850–1950
This book analyses the roles that lay women and girls played in the evolution of Irish Catholicism and thus the creation of modern Irish identities.
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Molière et son premier tartuffe
A study of one of the most enduring mysteries in world theatre: the nature, structure and purpose of the first and no longer extant version of his most controversial play, Le Tartuffe.
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The cathars and the albigensian crusade
Clear introduction to a fascinating subject. Brings together new material on the social background of the 'heresy'. Lovely illustrations and maps.
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The culture of diplomacy
This is an original study of British diplomacy in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It examines the social, cultural and intellectual aspects of diplomatic life and practice between 1750 and 1830.
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Mother bombie
Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly’s comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs and the determination of their young servants to exploit their m...
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The biopolitics of the war on terror
This book provides an utterly original analysis of the social and political origins of the war on terror in liberal regimes of disciplinary and biopolitical forms of power.
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All in the mix
How do parents consider questions of race and class when they are choosing secondary schools for their children and does it differ from place to place? All in the mix: Race, class and school choice explores parents' experience of negotiating school choice in particular places and how this talk i...
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The english revolution c. 1590–1720
This book is about the crisis of transition marked by the English Revolution (1640-1660), while at the same time placing it in the context of a long seventeenth century - running from about 1590 to 1720.Leading experts explore this theme, with special reference to developments in politics, religi...
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International law in europe, 700–1200
Was there international law in the Middle Ages? This book examines the extent to which such a system of rules was known and followed in the period 700 to 1200. Taking treaties as its main source, it challenges traditional interpretations of the history of international law and how it functioned i...
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Pulp fictions of medieval england
Pulp Fictions of Medieval England demonstrates that popular romance not only merits and rewards serious critical attention, but that we ignore it to the detriment of our understanding of the complex and conflicted world of medieval England.
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Victorian women's magazines
This anthology makes available to students and general readers the rich variety of Victorian magazines for women. The extracts range from fashion magazines to feminist journals, from serious works for Christian mothers to tales of romance and passion for ‘sweethearts’.
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Us politics today
Provides a concise, up-to-date and accessible introduction to US government and politics. It offers a survey of core institutions such as the presidency, Congress and the US Supreme Court, assesses the electoral system and considers the part played by organized interests and political parties.
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Steven berkoff and the theatre of self-performance
This book is the first substantial study of Steven Berkoff's career, examining the construction and projection of his notorious public persona through his plays and writings.
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Has devolution worked?
Devolution to Scotland and Wales represented the most fundamental reform of the British state for almost a century. Ten years on, how successful has the reform been? Drawing on the views of citizens, elected representatives and interest groups in Scotland and Wales, this book provides an answer...
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The wolves are coming back
The wolves are coming back moves beyond stereotypic representations of East Germany, and shines light on the complexities of post-socialist life and losses. It seeks to explain the extraordinary success of new far right parties in a vivid ethnographic recounting of the local politics of fear, hop...
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The feminine public sphere
This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions and discourses used by disenfranchised middle-c...
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Sexual progressives
Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of Victorian Scotland. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, its arguments disrupt current understandings of progressi...
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Culture is bad for you
This book paints an unflinching portrait of the situation for arts and culture workers in Britain today. Revised and updated with the latest figures, it exposes how minorities continue to be marginalised in the post-COVID era.
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Queen henrietta's men and the cockpit repertory
This book offers the first extended study of Queen Henrietta’s Men, one of Caroline London’s most important professional theatre companies. It explores the material and cultural conditions under which the company operated, and the dynamics that held between new drama written for the company and t...
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Literature in contexts
This book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, and it seeks out – in a series of contextualising experiments – contexts which are text-specific, or author-specific, or literary rather than historical, putting forward a distinction between ‘deep’ and ‘broad’ contexts.
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Charles darwin's the origin of species
Several new readings, crossing the fields of history, literature, sociology, anthropology and history of science, demonstrate the complex position of the text within cultural debates past and present.
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The securitisation of islam
This book is a timely analysis of the securitisation of Islam in the US and an original contribution to securitisation theory by introducing the notion of ‘indirect securitising speech acts’ and the role of emotions and affect in securitisation studies. It is an innovative approach to Islamophobi...
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Blitzkrieg and the russian art of war
Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war moves beyond discussions of ‘hybrid’ warfare to offer a broad account of contemporary Russian thinking on war. Exploring key concepts in Russian military thinking, it contributes to the debate about Russia’s role in international affairs and the challenge the...
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The florentine florin
Locatelli revises our understanding of the leading currency of the Middle Ages, the florin, by investigating it as a medium with hitherto neglected political, social, and cultural dimensions in the interactions between the Florentine merchants, the Angevin Crown, and the Papacy.
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Not magic but work
Newly available in paperback, this is a detailed description of the intensive work process involved in the making of Toy Symphony, a play by Michael Gow, directed by Neil Armfield and brought to the stage for the first time in December 2007 by Company B at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney. Dr...
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In the shadow of enoch powell
This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate of crisis in British society.
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Labour and the left in the 1980s
This volume, the first scholarly study of Labour and the left in the age of Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, opens up a whole new area of historical inquiry, and demonstrates why the 1980s political inheritance has become timely once more.
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Ghost-haunted land
This wide-ranging study addresses developments in video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and more, offering detailed analyses of key works by artists based in Ireland and beyond — including 2014 Turner Prize winner Duncan Campbell and internationally acclaimed filmmaker and photogra...
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The transatlantic divide
Is the current Transatlantic Alliance crisis more serious than previous ones and if so why? Will the Transatlantic Alliance recover or is it headed for transformation or even dissolution? This book analyses the reasons behind the latest Transatlantic Alliance crisis, dissects its manifestations, ...
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Nudge, nudge, think, think
This book builds on the 'nudge' idea proposed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, proposing an alternative 'think' strategy that calls on citizens to decide their own priorities as part of a process of civic and democratic renewal. It sets out the different approaches in theory and presents a se...
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Reading poetry
This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry ‘at work’ in poems|This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows a...
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Curating empire
Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of...
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Revolutionising politics
In a series of wide-ranging chapters on politics in thought, word and deed, twelve colleagues of the late Mark Kishlansky reconsider the history of the English Revolution, engaging and often challenging Kishlansky's own conclusions.
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Romania and the european union
Romania's predatory rulers, the heirs of the sinister communist dictator Ceauescu, have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the European Union. This book discusses policy failures in the areas of justice, administrative and agricultural reform and shows how Romania moved backwards politically durin...
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Coline serreau
Coline Serreau’s third film, Trois hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Baby) was the most successful French film of the 1980s. She was already known in France for her major contribution to feminist documentaries with the acclaimed Mais qu'est-ce qu'elles veulent?, and is now a key figure in Fre...
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The anthropology of ambiguity
This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative force of political and socio-cultural transformation in contemporary human life trajectories.
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Surface tensions
The sixteen essays in this collection explore the surface as a site where complex forces meet, thorugh a wide range of subjects including avante garde fashion, the faking of antiques, postmodern architecture and design, and film costume. The book provides insights into the whole lifecycle of obje...
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The scots in south africa
The first full-length book to deal with Scottish emigration to South Africa and the resulting conflicts and relationships with African peoples. Deals with exploration, scientific endeavour, military campaigns, Christian missions, western education, intellectual institutions and the professions, t...
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Unburied
This book tells the true story of Hannah Beswick, the so-called ‘Manchester Mummy’. Debunking the legends that have sprung up around this unusual case of modern mummification, it sheds light on the history of museums and the collection of human remains.
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Frontier narratives
This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and ‘renegades’ developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the ‘others’ thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostil...
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Template for peace
This book examines the creation and collapse of the first power-sharing administration in Northern Ireland, and British government policy during the period 1972–75. It also analyses the relationship between the British and Irish states during the 1972–75 period.
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Women, credit, and debt in early modern scotland
Uses court records to re-evaluate women’s economic roles in early modern Scotland.
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Conflict, politics and proselytism
An exploration of Methodist missionaries working in Upper Burma between 1887 and 1966
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