-
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.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Women in the weimar republic
The first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women’s experiences in the economy, politics and society.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Drafting the irish free state constitution
This book provides an account of the drafting of the Irish Free Constitution of 1922, analysing the document in its historical context and exploring the reasons for its lack of success
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Twenty british films
This book examines twenty major British films from a 70-year time span, offering a lively account of what has made them valuable and provocative over many viewings.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Irish cinema in the twenty-first century
This book provides an accessible, comprehensive discussion of how a small national cinema can remain relevant in the wider environment of globalisation. It includes chapters on the creative documentary, animation and the horror film, as well as Irish history on screen and the depiction of the cou...
Read MoreRegular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Culture on drugs
Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology and criminology to cultural and literary studies and philosophy.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
How to save politics in a post-truth era
This book argues that the relationship between methodology and politics is now more important than ever – that politics, if it is anything, is about engaging with people’s interpretations and narratives of the world in which they find themselves.
Regular price $22.95Regular price $22.95 Sale price $22.95Unit price per -
The econocracy
A particular, narrow way of thinking about the economy is dominant in society today. This book explores how this came to be, why the system cannot continue and how to build a better future.
Regular price $21.95Regular price $21.95 Sale price $21.95Unit price per -
The regulation of standards in british public life
This is an analysis of the revolution of the last two decades that has built an extensive new regulatory apparatus governing British public ethics. The book sets the new machinery in the wider institutional framework of British government. Its main purpose is to understand the dilemmas of regulat...
Read MoreRegular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Irish nationalism and european integration
Irish nationalism and European integration are enduringly powerful forces – each able to provoke momentous change in national identities, borders and governance. This book analyses the ways in which Irish political leaders have assiduously presented these two forces as complementary and, in so do...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
David malouf
Don Randall's comprehensive study situates acclaimed author David Malouf within the field of contemporary international and psotcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, but also engages with t...
Read MoreRegular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Bulmer hobson and the nationalist movement in twentieth-century ireland
This book examines Bulmer Hobson (1883-1969) nationalist career in the period 1900-16, as well as his lesser-known activities in the years after the rebellion.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
The scottish family tree detective
The Scottish family tree detective is a practical, user- friendly guide to research in family history – in locating the ancestors and exploring their background. Its aim is to provide sign-posts to the past and to solve problems.
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Chronicles of the investiture contest
The first English translation of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Literature and class
This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants’ Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
The universal baroque
A multi-disciplinary study of the notion of the baroque, using examples of music, art, visual culture, literature and architecture, revealing it to be a global phenomenon
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
The end of populism
This book proposes concrete solutions to confront the populist wave and the rise of “illiberal democracy.” The author demonstrates that democracy is not a “demand side” phenomenon, but rather a “supply side” phenomenon and formulates twenty original and bold proposals to fight populism and defend...
Read MoreRegular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
The end of ulster loyalism?
This book explores the dynamics and divisions within paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland since the mid-1970s
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
The face of the city
This pioneering and unprecedented study shows how portraits of civic officials (mayors, aldremen, college and school masters and civic benefactors) articulated civic values in post-Reformation England. It also explores English portraiture, patrons and painters before the full reception of new-cl...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Eva gore-booth
Academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students in Irish and British social and cultural history.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
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...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
The trouble with freedom
In The trouble with freedom, Melissa Butcher explores America's divide over the concept of freedom, interviewing people across political, racial and cultural lines. She reveals how political conflict stems from personal experiences with cultural change and uncovers opportunities for empathy amid ...
Read MoreRegular price $31.95Regular price $31.95 Sale price $31.95Unit price per -
The structure of modern cultural theory
An interesting companion for students of cultural theory, concentrating on the four most influential thinkers - Adorno, Bourdieu, Foucault and Jameson
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
The new politics of russia
Reflecting on the evolution of Russia studies since the end of the Cold War, this study offers a robust critique of the mainstream view of Russia and offers a more dynamic and complex model for interpretation.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Migration into art
Provides close readings of works by internationally renowned artists, including Rina Banerjee, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Pat Ward Williams and Bharti Kher
Regular price $45.95Regular price $45.95 Sale price $45.95Unit price per -
Negotiating the auteur
Dobson provides detailed critical analysis of films by Dominique Cabrera, Laetitia Masson, Noémie Lvovsky and Marion Vernoux, and presents common threads including the possible construction of social intimacy, the political demystification of romance narratives and the role of nostalgia in contem...
Read MoreRegular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
From integration to integrity
This book explores how the European Commission has addressed criticism of its administrative ethics since 1999.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Democracy in scandinavia
This book breaks new ground in challenging the established status of the Scandinavian countries as consensual democracies
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Chinoiserie
A critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness, and ornamental excesses
Regular price $160.00Regular price $160.00 Sale price $160.00Unit price per -
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
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Africa 2.0
Africa 2.0 provides an important history of how two technologies – mobile calling and internet – were made available to millions of sub-Saharan Africans and the impact they have had on their lives. The book deals with the political challenges of liberalisation and privatisation that needed to be ...
Read MoreRegular price $36.95Regular price $36.95 Sale price $36.95Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Hermits and anchorites in england, 1200–1550
This book provides an unprecedented range of sources for the solitary life in late-medieval England, including many that have never before been published, alongside a scholarly introduction and commentary by one of the foremost experts in the field.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
The bush administration, sex and the moral agenda
This book considers the White House's approach towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity, and same-sex marriage. It not only offers an account of policy-making but assesses the role of the Christian right, evaluates the political significance of moral concerns, and throws new ligh...
Read MoreRegular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Russian-american relations in the post-cold war world
This book offers a step-by-step analysis of key stages in the development of the Russian-American relationship since the late Cold War. Through its lenses one can perceive the roots of the Crimean crisis of 2014 as well as the path to a more promising future for the two global powers as well as ...
Read MoreRegular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Representations of renaissance monarchy
Representations of Renaissance monarchy analyses the portraits and personal imagery of Francis I, one of the most frequently portrayed rulers of sixteenth-century Europe. The distinctive likeness of the Valois king was widely disseminated and perceived by his French subjects, and Tudor and Habsbu...
Read MoreRegular price $130.00Regular price $130.00 Sale price $130.00Unit price per -
Ten lessons in modern chinese history
A timely and solid portrait of modern China
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
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...
Read MoreRegular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Unfinished business
This book traces the political development of 'dissident' Irish republicanism from the beginnings of the peace process. Based on extensive interviews with activists, it offers an insight into the ideology and motivation of a wide range of radical republican groups and analyses how serious a chall...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Killing men & dying women
This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-wo...
Read MoreRegular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Jim crace
Philip Tew's study is the first extended critical examination of Crace's oeuvre and is based on extensive interviews with the novelist, including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007).
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
The extended self
Refuting popular concepts of the self as separate beings, the author proposes a new theory of the “extended self” as a product of the coevolution of humankind and technology, comprising both social and material elements
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Postcolonial african cinema
An excellent introductory volume for those wishing to know more about the hitherto neglected cinema from the African continent, including directors from Egypt, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Cameroon, South Africa
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
The labour party under ed miliband
By charting the ideas that informed and shaped Ed Miliband’s attempt to re-imagine social democracy this book shows that he tried but failed in that task. This failure is one of the several reasons why ‘Milibandism’ was so overwhelmingly rejected by voters at the 2015 general election.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
The hidden alternative
The Hidden Alternative will be of interest to students and academics studying economic, business studies, history or politics, and also to policy-makers who have witnessed the inadequacies of investor-led business models during the global recession.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
A history of the new zealand fiction feature film
A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is the only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s, Bruce Babington discloses a longer saga showing how the present, fo...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $45.95Regular price $45.95 Sale price $45.95Unit price per -
Vanishing for the vote
Investigates the boycott of the 1911 census by Suffragettes
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
How media and conflicts make migrants
Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of “migrantification” – in which people are made into migrants by the state, the media and members of society.
Regular price $21.95Regular price $21.95 Sale price $21.95Unit price per -
Adapting philosophy
Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Performance art in eastern europe since 1960
This is the first comprehensive academic study of the history of performance art in Eastern Europe. It is a comparative study that covers twenty-one countries across the region, highlighting the unique contribution of these artists to the genre of performance art.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Factories for learning
This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities.
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Spanish visual culture
This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital themes: emtion, location and nostalgia.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Hollywood behind the wall
A representative history of East German film culture from 1946 to the present, offering close readings both of DEFA's celebrated classics and of the most acclaimed post-unification films.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
The history of emotions
The first accessible text book on the theories, methods, achievements and problems in this burgeoning field of historical inquiry.
Regular price $26.95Regular price $26.95 Sale price $26.95Unit price per -
The ethics of war
A new edition of the leading book on this subject that takes a serious account of the most recent developments, with new entries on terrorism and counterterrorism.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
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...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
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...
Read MoreRegular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
The autonomous life?
This book is an ethnographic study of the internal dynamics of a subcultural squatting community that defines itself as a social movement.
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Douglas coupland
This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland’s career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction
Regular price $36.95Regular price $36.95 Sale price $36.95Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Europe's path to crisis
Examines each stage of the EU monetary crisis along with the political and social impact, and reveals the longer-term origins
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Monasticism in late medieval england, c.1300–1535
Monasticism in Late Medieval England provides an ideal introduction to this subject for students and scholars alike. It combines translated sources relating to every aspect of late medieval monastic life with the first extended overview of pre-Reformation monasticism in England for a generation.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Cities and crisis
An ambitious global study of the state of cities in the early twenty-first century, their role in society, and their contribution to the financial crisis
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Representing renaissance art, c.1500–c.1600
This is a study of change and continuity in the iconographics of art and the representations of artists during the sixteenth century in Western European traditions, especially Italy and the Netherlands.
Regular price $52.95Regular price $52.95 Sale price $52.95Unit price per -
Securitising russia
The book demonstrates how Vladimir Putin has wrestled with terrorism, immigration, media freedom, religious pluralism and economic globalism in response to twenty-first-century security concerns.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Scandinavian politics today
A high-quality textbook which has earned a strong reputation and is cited by senior academics and undergraduates alike. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to view Nordic politics and policy-making in a wider comparative perspective.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Reflections on the marxist theory of history
This book defends the Marxist theory of history through, first, a critique of its empiricist and postmodern critics, second, a practical demonstration of the power of Marxist historical writings, and, third, a survey of the powerful and influential methodological debates between Marxists.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Ireland and migration in the twenty-first century
Considers migration to, from and within Ireland in the twenty-first century, covering the Celtic Tiger era of mass immigration to Ireland as well as the dramatic growth in levels of emigration that has occurred since the Irish economic collapse.
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Bound together
This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present.
Regular price $37.95Regular price $37.95 Sale price $37.95Unit price per -
Theatre, education and the making of meanings
The book is a study of theatre's educational role in the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised by the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre a...
Read MoreRegular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
Hugo chávez and the bolivarian revolution
The first full-length study of the government of Hugo Chávez of Venezuela within wider discussions on populism and globalisation in Latin America. It provides a comprehensive and critical account of Chávez’s emergence, socio-economic policies, democratic credentials, impact, foreign policy and fu...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per -
Iain sinclair
A clearly written, comprehensive critical introduction to one of the most original contemporary British writers, providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London
Regular price $120.00Regular price $120.00 Sale price $120.00Unit price per -
From partition to brexit
From Partition to Brexit provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of how successive Irish governments have tried to overcome the challenges presented by the division of Ireland, including the decades-long conflict that claimed thousands of lives.
Regular price $45.95Regular price $45.95 Sale price $45.95Unit price per -
Kids and branding in a digital world
How do kids become engaged with brands? Does their relationship with them change throughout their life? Providing a detailed analysis of kids and branding, the author considers specific models of cognitive development throughout childhood.
Regular price $29.95Regular price $29.95 Sale price $29.95Unit price per
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
