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Intimacy and injury
Intimacy and injury offers an original perspective on the #MeToo movement from South Africa and India. It overturns the dominance of western debates on #MeToo by foregrounding diverse southern feminist takes on the possibilities and limits of this movement in the global south.
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The woman in the moon
The Woman in the Moon is the last of Lyly’s plays and the only one of his works to be written primarily in verse. Newly edited from the first edition of 1597, this latest contribution to the prestigious Revels Plays series is the first fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of the play.
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Researching urban space and the built environment
Researching urban space and the built environment is a unique and accessible guide to the planning, researching and writing of spatial histories.
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Workers and politics in occupied austria, 1945–55
This book examines the way in which Austria escaped absorption into the Soviet Bloc after 1945 and the impact this had on its domestic politics.
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Conrad's marlow
Conrad’s Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad’s most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator, a biographer or an autobiographical screen, a messenger or an interpreter, a bearer of truth or a misguided liar?
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Reassessing 1970s britain
This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century.
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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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Neoliberal power and public management reforms
This book examines contemporary public administration reforms seeking to promote accountability, credibility and evidence.It is argued that a particular form of constructivist neoliberalism play a pivotal role in these reforms.
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This is your hour
This book examines responses of a Christian intellectual group in 1930s and 1940s Britain to totalitarianism and war. Seeking ‘middle ways’ through what has been called the ‘age of extremes’, the group sought to apply faith to the social order, influence public opinion and inspire a social renewa...
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The 'perpetual fair'
This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings
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Bartholomew fair (revels student edition)
Of all of Jonson's plays, Bartholomew Fair with its focus on the conflict between a carnivalesque enjoyment of the flesh and society's desire for order and control, speaks most directly to the modern audience. This edition is the first to use the findings of feminist scholarship in examining the ...
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Fighting fascism: the british left and the rise of fascism, 1919–39
A new work that looks at the struggle against fascism in Britain between the wars, argues that the British left have been overlooked in studies of anti-fascism, and maintains that the Labour Party, the Communist Party and other left-wing currents developed sophisticated analyses of fascism on a p...
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A history of british sports medicine
A comprehensive history of the development of British sports medicine as a medical specialism, and of the changing biomedical understanding of the athlete - from normal healthy man, to supernormal hero or even physiological freak - from 1880 to the early twenty-first century.
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Clyde walcott
West Indies legend Sir Clyde Walcott was one of the greatest cricketers of all time, but he was also an important administrator and activist. This first biography offers a detailed examination of his extraordinary life and achievements.
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The great favourite
This is the first biography of the last major unknown figure in European history. The Duke of Lerma was the first and greatest of the royal favourites of the European seventeenth century. He was the greatest art patron of his generation and the greatest lay builder in Spanish history. This study ...
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Migration diplomacy in the middle east and north africa
The first major examination of the interplay between migration and foreign policy in the Middle East, this study analyses how key Arab and non-Arab states instrumentalised cross-border mobility from the mid-1950s until today, and shows how migrants, refugees and diasporas have been subject to pow...
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Tragic encounters and ordinary ethics
For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia. But why is this conflict so significant for student activists living at such a geographical distance from the regi...
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The making of a status symbol
This book shows how Rolex has become the embodiment of individual success since the 1960s. This brand is much more than a watch: it is a narrative on a triple exceptionality: that of a product, that of an entrepreneur, and that of the wealthy consumers who wear it. A must-read for understanding t...
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Staging the real
'Staging the Real' is a lively, stimulating account of recent developments in factual TV programming, including 'Big Brother'. Primarily aimed at Media Studies students, it will also be of interest to the more general reader.
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Readers and mistresses
Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while offering a queer way to read for their existences when less legible. This book offers a way to read old material with new eyes and a social justice ethic.
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Fenians and ribbonmen
East Tyrone sits at the crossroads of Irish politics. This book commences with the struggle between Belfast’s ‘Wee Joe’ Devlin, the coming man of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and the Irish Republican Brotherhood to gain mastery over the burgeoning Ancient Order of Hibernians and, with it, contr...
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Masques of difference
Masques of difference' presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson, which reflect the royal court’s self-representation as moral and just, in contrast to stylised images of chaotically (and exotically) 'othered' groups: Africans, the Irish, witch...
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J.g. ballard
A comprehensive account of the work of J.G. Ballard, one of the most important fiction writers of the past forty years. Traces the development of his career, and the significant contribution he has made to contemporary writing.
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Modernism and the making of the soviet new man
Modernism and the Making of the New Man is a history or Soviet architecture that is unique in that, instead of styles or great architects, it focuses on the design of communist subjectivity – the notion of the “new man”.
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European fashion
This volume examines the cultural history of the fashion industry in the postwar era. Taking an original, interdisciplinary approach, it focuses on the internal culture of the trade, explaining the significance of value creation and assessing the transformation of local industries into global bra...
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The wounds of nations
A book which looks at how trauma is replayed in horror cinema, allowing different audiences in different nation states to engage with recent trauma
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Protestant missionary children's lives, c.1870-1950
Protestant missionary children’s historical lives are examined from the perspectives of parents, churches and children, to reveal complicated existences. This book takes a comparative approach across a range of settings, drawing on oral history, childhood history and histories of emotion. It exte...
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Using film as a source
A hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources.
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Illegitimate power
Drawing on a wide rage of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crises in early modern England.
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British fascism, 1918–1939
A major new and balanced study of British Facism which surveys the development of British fascism between 1918 and 1939. Provides an accessible guide to the essential features of British fascism in the interwar period. Considers a previously under-researched area of British fascism, namely fascis...
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The left and the european constitution
This book examines how left-wing parties are being affected by European integration. It does so by concentrating on the left-wing responses to the Treaty of Lisbon and the European Constitutional Treaty.
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Beckett and media
This collection of essays stages a dialogue between leading Beckett scholars and media theorists and offers the first sustained critical enquiry into Beckett as a media artist and his intermedial work.
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Wwf and arctic environmentalism
This book explores WWF’s approach toward engagement in the Circumpolar North and reasons why it is relatively well-received by key northern audiences. It argues that the foundation of WWF’s success is based on four inter-related strategic pillars: legacy, networks, scientific research and communi...
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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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The british in rural france
A study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives.
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Breaking peace
This book argues that Brexit is the most significant event in the political history of Northern Ireland since partition in 1921. It explains why Brexit presents unique challenges for NI and why the border is so significant for the peace process. It argues that Brexit is breaking peace in NI and r...
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The playboy and james bond
A study of the Bond phenomenon and its relation to the rise of playboy culture from the 1960s onwards.
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Jewish refugees and the british nursing profession
This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession of nursing.
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The white devil
In this study of sexual and political intrigue, a fascinating but dangerous woman consents to the murder of her ineffectual husband. Her defence against the charge of adultery transforms the lurid tale of crime into high tragedy.A compellingly dangerous and fascinating play with a comprehensive s...
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Britain and africa in the twenty-first century
Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain’s relationship with Africa has fared since the fall of the 1997-2010 New Labour government.
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Visualising far-right environments
This book examines the far right’s visual politics of nature, offering original case studies from around the world.
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Stage rights!
Drawing upon previously unseen archival material, this book brings to life the story of the Actresses' Franchise League from 1908-1958, building a picture of this diverse, exciting and innovative organisation that opens up and extends previous scholarship of the suffrage movement, and of politica...
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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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Civilians into soldiers
An examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War
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Co-memory and melancholia
Explores the construction of collective memory in Israeli society in relation to the Palestinian Nakba.
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Bad english
Bad English examines the impact of increasing language diversity in transforming contemporary literature in Britain, in the context of its contested language politics. Exploring a range of poetry and prose, it makes the case for literature as the preeminent medium to probe the terms and condition...
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Interpreting the labour party
Interpreting the Labour Party consists of twelve essays on the principal thinkers and schools of thought concerned with the political and historical development of the Labour Party and Labour movement.
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Northern ireland after the troubles
This book seeks to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of a society in the process of transition between war and peace.
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Egypt of the saite pharaohs, 664–525 bc
The Saite Dynasty (664–525 BC) represents a dynamic but lesser-known era in the history of ancient Egypt. In less than a decade Psamtek I reunified the country after almost 400 years of fragmentation. The Saite rulers promoted trade and embarked on important reforms, allowing Egypt to regain a ma...
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The gulf states and the horn of africa
This timely volume offers a critical analysis of the regional and international relations of the Horn of Africa and Red Sea, focussing on the role of states from the Persian Gulf in these developments.
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Beyond the metropolis
Draws on previously unexplored visual and ephemeral sources to re-evaluate the British city, its changing form, representation and impact.
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Threads of labour
Threads of labour examines the effects of ruination and loss of community in an ex-industrial village. Charting a collaborative project of hope using carpet-making skills and industrial heritage, the book investigates how a cleaved ex-industrial community used arts methodologies as a strategy of ...
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Formulating development
From the Alpine pastureland of late nineteenth century Switzerland to the hospitals of post-independence West Africa, Nestlé and the shaping of the aid industry tells the story of how Nestlé earned a seat at the table of international aid, and uncovers the long-forgotten alliances and controversi...
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Missionaries and modernity
This book examines the changing landscape of evangelical British missionary education in the British Empire of the nineteenth century. It argues that over the course of the nineteenth century many aspects of mission schools were secularised, leading missionary societies to question the ambivalen...
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The europeanisation of the western balkans
This book deals with the scope and nature of the EU’s external influence over South-Eastern Europe in the present enlargement. Theory-oriented and comparative, the book provides rich insight into the dynamics of the current enlargement and offers comprehensive analysis of the EU’s external lever...
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Emmanuel macron and the two years that changed france
This book looks at the period 2015–18 in French politics, which witnessed the emergence of a new political order centred on Emmanuel Macron. It asks whether modern political leadership is capable of restoring trust in political institutions and investigates the transformative nature of the Macron...
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Northern ireland and the politics of boredom
This book examines the capitalist critiques that underpin representations of sectarian conflict in poetry, photography, performance, oral-testimony and punk.
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When hollywood loved britain
Examines American films that were set in Britain, based on British literature or history and included the work of British producers, directors, writers, stars and character actors
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Popular television drama
A collection of essays that examine landmark popular television drama from the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office'. Contributors focus on programmes across the range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama
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Beckett's afterlives
Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett’s oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Beckett’s ...
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Crime, law and society in the later middle ages
A collection of translated legal sources charting the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c.1215-1485). Offers an insight into the character of medieval governance as well as revealing the complex nexus of interests, attitudes and relationships prevailin...
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Strange matter
Entering into productive dialogue with recent trends in criticism, Strange matter: Medieval disruptions of time scrutinises a wide range of European and non-European texts and artworks to generate innovative perspectives on objects from the Middle Ages and the various ways they inform and complic...
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The making of thatcherism
An examination of the Conservative Party’s period in opposition between 1974 and 1979, focusing on policy development, which argues that the short term political context of the time best explains why Conservative policy did not change as much as might be expected, and draws wider conclusions abou...
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Democratising conservative leadership selection
This book looks at how the election of Conservative Party leaders has become more democratic over the last fifty years and how that has affected the Party and the nature of its leadership.
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André téchiné
The first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, locating André Téchiné within historical and cultural contexts that include the Algerian war, contemporary globialisation, and the influence of Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman,...
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The common writer in modern history
This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses ‘ordinary writings’ across a range of geographical area...
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Medieval literary voices
Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices evoke voices lurking beyond the text – the absent authorial voice, the traces of scribal voices and the aural soundscape of the uttered text – and ho...
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Religion, regulation, consumption
This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark.
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Latin america–european union relations in the twenty-first century
A unique and worthwhile examination of EU relations with South America in the first decades of the twenty-first century, focusing in particular on the evolution of negotiations for new generation preferential trade agreements.
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Henry dresser and victorian ornithology
This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838–1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author examines how Dresser and his contemporaries discovered and documented birds across the globe.
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The spoken word
Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of communication. Exami...
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Caring for someone with a long-term illness
This is the first book in the Support for Friends and Family series. Aiming to help friends, family and carers to understand both the practical and personal issues that can arise from the task of caring, this book provides useful suggestions on ways to make the experience easier for the carer and...
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The punk rock politics of joe strummer
Drawing on Strummer’s lyrics, interviews and bootleg recordings, as well as interviews with friends and contemporaries like Billy Bragg, The punk rock politics of Joe Strummer reveals the wide-ranging political influence of one of the twentieth century’s iconic rock’n’roll rebels.
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Gender, rhetoric and regulation
Investigates women’s employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the twentieth century, providing a new perspective on the development of the women’s movement.
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Germany's russia problem
The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe’s most important link with the largest country on the continent. This book analyses how successive German governments from 1991 to 2014 have misread Russian intentions, until Angela Merkel sharply recalibrated German and EU policy towards Moscow.
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Moving images
Concerns about the effects of television on young children are a recurrent focus of public controversy. Yet amid all the anxiety, children's voices are rarely heard. In this book, one of Britain's leading television researchers investigates children's own perspectives on what they find frightenin...
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Imperial citizenship
This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the early twentieth century by focussing on the heretofore understudied concept of imperial citizenship.
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The quiet contemporary american novel
This book explores the concept of ‘quiet’ – an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles – and argues for the term’s application to the study of contemporary American fiction.
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Chartist drama
This volume opens a window onto a unique culture of politicised working-class drama by offering four plays that highlight the diversity of Chartist performance: a verse tragedy concerning the Newport rising; a Gothic melodrama; a frequently reenacted treason trial; and a Romantic-era history play.
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Birth controlled
This book analyses the world of selective reproduction – interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition – by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technolo...
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Charitable hatred
Charitable hatred presents a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Instead of charting a path of linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises the complex interplay between these two impulses throughout the sixteenth and sevent...
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Flesh and spirit
Ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period
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The acquisition of territory in international law
A timely reissue of a classic text in international law, featuring a new introduction from Professor Marcelo G. Kohen of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
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Sources of architectural form
Sources of Architectural Form provides a critical history of Western architecture theory from the ancient world to the present day. It focuses on design theory’s central question: how does the architect generate architectural form? Theorists necessarily tackle this fundamental question in order t...
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Mick lynch
Mick Lynch became a ‘working-class hero’ in the summer of 2022, when he offered a robust critique of the government and gave a voice to working people. This book explores Lynch’s background and his rise to the top of the RMT union, asking what leadership means for the working class and the left.
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Bachelors of a different sort
Carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957
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The seven veils of privacy
A comprehensive, rigorous, multidisciplinary analysis of privacy debates, organised around a framework for understanding the different questions and perspectives of antagonists.
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New labour and the new world order
This book provides a comprehensive, detailed and critical examination of Britain's role in the US-led war on terror.
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Monstrous media/spectral subjects
Explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present.
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French children under the allied bombs, 1940–45
Provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians. Using oral history and archival research, it provides an insight into children's wartime lives in which bombing often featured prominently, even though it has sli...
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Art versus industry?
Explores the relationship between industry and the visual arts in the long nineteenth century, using new research to reveal surprising collaborations between craftspeople, inventors, engineers and educators.
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Mainstreaming co-operation
This collection considers the transformation that has taken place over the last thirty years in the global position of co-operative and mutual business models, from the prevailing view of the investor-led model in the 1980s to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and revival of the co-opera...
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