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Electoral competition in ireland since 1987
This major new account of the politics of modern Ireland offers a rigorous analysis of the forces which shaped both how the Irish state governed itself from the period since 1987 and how it lost its economic sovereignty in 2010.
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Anglogerman manchester
A series of linked essays on particular Germans living in Manchester from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The themes of refuge (from the 1848 Revolutions in Europe, and later from Nazi Germany) and reparation run through the book.
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Reclaiming migration
Reclaiming migration assesses the EU’s migration policies based on a counter-archive of migratory testimonies, co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016. It highlights the flawed assumptions on which policies are based and documents the precarities produced...
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The debate on the crusades, 1099–2010
This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody wars...
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The jacobites
This book is a comprehensive survey of the Jacobite movement, from its violent counter-revolutionary origins to its bitter conclusion. Written to be easily accessible, it takes into account the latest research and is designed to provide an easy introduction to the field.
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Understanding baby loss
This book offers an in-depth sociological analysis of parent and professional experience of baby loss, examining the role that post-mortem can play in the wider context of bereavement.
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Rethinking equality
Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality. Rethinking Equality provides a clear, critical and very up-to-date account of the most important contemporary egalitarian theories.
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Pier paolo pasolini for art history and practice
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s influential cinematic and literary works attest to a crucial early formation: his intermittent practice as a painter, critic and art historian. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume’s chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini’s aesthet...
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The looking machine
This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films.
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Representative democracy?
When people vote in a democracy, they expect the result of the election to be 'fair.' Is this true in the UK and if not, why not? This book explains how our system of 'first-past-the-post' translates votes into seats and is essential reading at a time of unprecedented electoral uncertainty.
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Queer cinema in contemporary france
Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across five French directors’ careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with international release.
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The making of german democracy
This is the first English language source reader that deals with post-war (West) Germany. Over 160 commented sources describe the political, social and economic developments that changed Germany from the abyss of Nazism into a prosperous ally of the West and into one of the driving forces of Euro...
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Family rhythms
This text draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time
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Wales since 1939
This ground-breaking book examines the story of Wales since 1939, giving voice to ordinary people and the variety of experiences within the nation. This is a history of not just a nation, but of its residents’ hopes and fears, their struggles and pleasures and their views of where they lived and ...
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Domestic life and domestic tragedy in early modern england
This book considers a range of printed and documentary evidence, the majority previously unpublished, for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households; and it then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domest...
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Pierrot and his world
The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot’s recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art o...
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Amitav ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is the first full-length critical monograph on this important post-colonial contemporary writer to be published outside India. It offers in-depth analysis of all Ghosh's major fictional and non-fictional works and is an authoritative introduction to the themes, ideas and contexts tha...
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Violent victorians
First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victori...
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Power, luck and freedom
Keith Dowding is a major figure in relation to debates on power and highly influential in the fields of political theory and political science. Power luck and freedom is a collection of his essays and articles, that provide a significant reference point for the field of power analysis.
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Bringing modernity home
Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period.
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Common spaces of urban emancipation
This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with ideas connected with neighbourhood and community, justice and resistance, in order to trace elements of a different emancipating future.
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Anne clifford's autobiographical writing, 1590–1676
Anne Clifford describes the dramatic and tragic events of her life in the seventeenth century. Of how she danced in the masques of Inigo Jones, experienced both joy and abuse in her two marriages, lost and gained an inheritance, and successfully defended her rights against kings and armies. All t...
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R. k. narayan
A comprehensive study of Narayan’s fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels
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Acting and performance in hitchcock
This book explores acting in a range of Hitchcock films, with leading scholars providing close readings of a selection of celebrated and lesser-known performances from across the director’s career.
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Unearthing childhood
Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images painted on rocks and pots, in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts to learn practical crafts. Readers in archeology and those with interests in childhood will gain new perspectives from this survey of the d...
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Citizen now
Citizen now charts a new research path in the study of the engagement of youth. Although their methods are varied and reflective of current technological tools, Citizen now argues that the tactics and motives of the groups reflect traditional political elements.
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Confronting crisis in the carolingian empire
This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus’ ‘Epitaph for Arsenius’ is both a personal and a political text, written with twenty years of hindsight, by...
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Brazil in the world
This book explains why Brazil is taking an increasingly prominent international role, how it conducts and plans its regional and global interactions, and what the South American giant intends to do with its rising international influence.
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Islamic charities and islamic humanism in troubled times
This book is the fruit of twenty years' reflection on Islamic charities, both practically and as a key to understand the crisis in contemporary Islam. On the one hand Islam is undervalued as a moral and political force whose admirable qualities are epitomised in its strong tradition of charit...
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British asian fiction
This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Written in accessible prose, it offers original new readings of works, among others by Salman Rushie, V. S. Naipaul, Hanif Kureishi, Ravinder Randhawa, Atima Srivastava, Moni...
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Mad money
The follow-up to Casino capitalism, this is another classic text, and the last book written by Susan Strange. It builds on the previous work, discussing the weak points of a financial system driven by volatile markets rather than by governments.
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German politics today
A comprehensive overview of the structures and influences of politics in Germany, which covers both historical and recent events
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Foucault’s theatres
This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy ‘theatrically’, contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought.
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Players' work time
This critical account of the Musicians' Union from 1893-2013 explores the organisation's development as a set of responses to technological, industrial and socio-political changes.
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The british left and zionism
The changes and divisions on the British left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study.
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It's a london thing
This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London’s precious, embattled multiculture.
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Fictional television and american politics
This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. This period comprises a second golden age for fictional TV. The book therefore explores some of the best TV of all time across two dec...
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The ethics of researching war
Developed through a series of encounters with a Bosnian Serb soldier, Looking for Bosnia is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of responding to extreme political violence in the context of the Bosnian war.
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Domestic fortress
This book critically analyses the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security, a relationship fuelled by the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of home-ownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate...
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Social change and everyday life in ireland, 1850–1922
This is the first comprehensive social history of Ireland in the years between the Famine and independence/partition (1850-1922) to appear in a quarter-century, Lively and colourful, it offers new perspectives on work, education, emigration, marriage, health, institutions, extreme poverty, housin...
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Change and the politics of certainty
The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and autobiographical illustrations, the book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up ...
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Reclaiming economics for future generations
Reclaiming economics for future generations argues that to build economies which serve people and the planet we need a diverse and decolonised curriculum. How does the global economy currently fail people and the planet, and why has mainstream economics knowledge inadequately addressed the pressi...
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Women's rights
This exciting collection of documents offers readers access to primary material illustrating the experiences of women in Britain in politics, society and daily life in the period 1770 to the 1970s.
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Irish adventures in nation-building
Irish Adventures in nation-building consists of eighteen mostly-chronological essays examining the debates and processes that have shaped the modernisation of Ireland since the beginning of the twentieth century. The vantage points examined include those of prominent revolutionaries, cultural nat...
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The black death
This book surveys contemporary responses to the Black Death. The sources illustrate the fear that spread with the disease and the diverse ways that such terror influenced social behaviour.
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The reimagined party
This book offers unprecedented insight into what the public want from parties. Presenting new data on public perceptions and desires, it diagnoses a wish for re-imagined parties, and considers how parties may wish to respond.
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Empire and subject peoples
The book outlines the sociological arguments and political activities of the US pragmatist sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller, part of the milieu of Chicago sociology and involved in its studies of race and immigration.
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Musicians and copyright
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of how CMOs managed copyright revenues, shaped the distribution of cultural productions, and adapted to ongoing transformations in the music business over time.
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Environmental politics in the european union
This book provides an introduction into the development, the making and the implementation of European Union environmental politics. It employs a clear and accessible analytical perspective based on the theoretical state-of-the-art of EU policy Studies
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Towns in medieval england
Assembles a diverse range of texts to encourage and facilitate the study of medieval towns – a fresh incentive following the collapse of the city-based Roman Empire, shaped by the cultural and commercial currents of the time.
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The origins of the first world war
A unique collection of hundreds of diplomatic and military documents on the origins of WWI: newly-discovered archival sources as well as documents not previously available in English. It includes a comprehensive scholarly introduction covering the most controversial issues in the debate on the or...
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Through the keyhole
This interdisciplinary study of the modern formation of concepts of public decency in France proceeds through a focus on the word pudeur (modesty), following its incidence across a wide range of cultural domains.
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The social world of the school
This book argues that the interwar classroom shaped twentieth-century Britain. It recreates and analyses life in London’s elementary schools in the 1920s and 1930s, building a mosaic of the educational experience. It argues that schools were grounded in their local communities and should be seen ...
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Networks of sound, style and subversion
This book examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Deploying innovative concepts of ‘critical mass’, ‘social networks’ and ‘music worlds’, and using sophisticated techniques of ‘social network analysis’, it teases out the events a...
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Go home?
An important intervention in one of the most heated issues of recent decades, this book investigates government campaigns to demonstrate toughness on immigration, and the wide-reaching consequences for migrants and citizens alike. engaged research.
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The politics of attack
This book asks the reader to consider the theories of bomb-throwing, window-smashing, graffiti-scrawling arsonists, and through an examination of movement communiqués, embrace the critique offered by the clandestine, urban guerrillas fighting for total liberation against the omnipresent forces of...
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What's in it for me?
Why do we hold the political views that we do? We often dwell on the self-interest of opponents, yet seldom reflect on our own. Considering five contemporary worldviews, Thomas Prosser argues that our views tend to satisfy self-interest. Paradoxically, awareness of self-interest makes us more ref...
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Colour
Accessible and inventive in its approach, Colour is the first monograph to deal with the close criticism of film colour across decades and countries.
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Fighting like the devil for the sake of god
This fascinating book about Belfast in the middle of the nineteenth century looks at how and why Ireland’s most prosperous and industrialized town began to tear itself apart. This study provides a vivid example of how a society can come apart at the seams – and how it can stay that way for genera...
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Remembering refugees
At a time of growing refugee crises across the modern world, this is the first book that examines how Britain remembers its past refugees, from the Huguenots through to the many groups who came in the twentieth century. It looks at how that memory has shaped treatment of contemporary asylum seekers.
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The political writings of eva gore-booth
A compilation of writings by this important Irish political activist. The volume includes a fascinating array of letters, political pamphlets, newspaper articles and poetry relating to key aspects of Irish and British events of the early twentieth century.
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Community and identity
This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a British fortress and ...
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A history of humanitarianism, 1755–1989
The book traces the history of international aid from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. The reconstruction of humanitarianism’s long pattern unfolds around some crucial moments and events: the colonial expansion of European countries, the two world wars and their aftermaths, t...
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Model collapse
Model collapse explores the relationship between art and democracy since the 1990s. Looking at a wide range of case studies it offers fresh insights into the limits of representation, the appeal of collaboration and the role of the nation-state in post-national frameworks.
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What a waste
Documents how outsourcing has penetrated every part of the public sector, and balances critique with practical suggestions for policy reform
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The irish voter
This pioneering analysis uses the results from the first ever Irish election study to provide a comprehensive survey of the motives, outlook and behaviour of voters in the Republic of Ireland. Building on the foundations laid down by previous work on comparative electoral behaviour, it explores l...
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The politics of participation
Is democracy in crisis? Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens are engaged in politics like never before by voting in referendums and participating in demonstrations and other forms of 'low politics'.
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Fleshing out surfaces
A strong and insightful work which argues that skin is not just any surface an artist can represent, but a highly overdetermined one. Focusing on five French painters - Fragonard, David, Girodet, Benoit and Ingres - it spans the fields of history of art and of medicine.
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The debate on the american revolution
‘Who will write the History of the American Revolution’ asked a worried John Adams, and ‘who will ever write it? This book is an attempt to answer these questions. Examining the many histories of the American Revolution and Constitution, it looks at how the transition from amateur to professional...
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Debt as power
Debt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The...
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Soviet materialities
Soviet materialities rethinks Soviet history and culture through the lens of materiality, exploring how humans and objects co-shaped identity, ideology, and social life. This interdisciplinary volume bridges Soviet-era thought with theoretical insights from New Materialism, offering a groundbreak...
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Noble society
This volume contains five biographical sources, translated into English for the first time , about noblemen and noblewomen living in twelfth-century Germany.
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The ecological eye
This book synthesises a variety of approaches to the visual, drawn from politics, theory, feminism and activism, in order to provide the blueprint for an ecocritical art history.
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Aids in soviet russia
This is the first book to chronicle the history of AIDS in Soviet Russia, detailing the government’s denial of the epidemic, its cynical disinformation campaigns, and the human cost of its indifference.
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Loyalty, memory and public opinion in england, 1658–1727
This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern ‘public sphere’. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these texts helped to foster a politically aware public by mapping shifts in the national ‘mood’.
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Philip roth
This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adv...
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Hammer and beyond
The second edition of Peter Hutchings’s landmark work on British horror cinema, featuring later writings by Hutchings and a new introduction by film historian Johnny Walker.
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Culture is bad for you
The book demonstrates that cultural jobs are the preserve of the most privileged, a ‘creative class’ in society, and always have been: there was no golden age for social mobility in culture. It shows how women, people of colour, and those of working class origins are missing from key parts of the...
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Eu security governance
EU security governance provides the first comprehensive treatment of the EU as a security actor. It covers four dimensions of security - assurance, prevention, compellance and protection - that range from military interventions to state-building efforts to internal security in the age of terrorism.
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The end of ulster loyalism?
This book explores the dynamics and divisions within paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland since the mid-1970s.
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Devolution and electoral politics
This book presents a comparative perspective on the new dynamics of electoral competition following devolution to Scotland and Wales. It offers the first discussion of multi-level electoral dynamics in other western democracies thud proposing how electoral competition might develop in the devolve...
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The winter's tale
An excellent study of the performance of one of Shakespeare's perceived 'problem plays', complete with interview material with actors and directors, an awareness of global productions and an insight to theatrical art.
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Journeyman
This new edition of Journeyman, Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, for whom he wrote the unforgettable The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
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The houses of history
An updated edition of this accessible critical reader, with additional chapters including an introduction that contextualises the rise of each theoretical perspective and draw links between them.
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History and memory
Supplies an accessible and readable introduction to recent work on memory in history and other disciplines, and contributes to debate on the nature and significance of history as an intellectual discipline.
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The europeanisation of whitehall
This is a path breaking study of the European Union’s impact on UK central government. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with the EU’s impact on central government across the period from the UK’s first application to join in 1961 right up to the end of the Blair administration.
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A history of the royal college of nursing 1916–90
This is the history of one of the largest nursing organizations in the world and one of the largest professional associations of women. The Royal College of Nursing began as a small professional association in 1916. Its work included nurses’ education, professional policy and labour relations. It...
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Understanding chinese politics
Provides a comprehensive introduction to China’s political system, outlining the major features of the Chinese model and highlighting its claims and challenges.
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Groups, representation and democracy
Can groups effectively link citizens to political institutions and policy processes? Are groups an antidote to emerging democratic deficits? This book will prompt senior students, researchers and seasoned scholars to think critically about the claim that groups can contribute to repairing democra...
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England and the 1966 world cup
England and the 1966 World Cup presents a cultural analysis of what is considered a key 'moment of modernity' in the nation's post-war history. Regarded as having an importance beyond its primary sporting purpose, the World Cup in England is examined within the complexity of the cultural,...
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Connecting sounds
An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores the doing and meanings of music, as well as its interface with economic, political and wider social structures.
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The divorce of king lothar and queen theutberga
The first published translation of Hincmar’s treatise – a key source for studying ninth-century political history and the ideology of kingship.
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