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Edmund spenser's shepheardes calender (1579)
Recontextualizing Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender in relation to book history, this study analyses the first edition of 1579 as a material text, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile available as a book. By illuminating the 1579 Calender’s development, this volume much advances ...
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Samuel richardson and the theory of tragedy
A bold new interpretation of one of the greatest European novels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.
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Terry nation
The first academic study of the science fiction television of Terry Nation, inventor of the Daleks, and author of 'Survivors' and 'Blake's 7' - places his work in the context of its production, and contains sustained analysis of key programmes, as well as new interview material.
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Arab youths
A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in t...
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Explaining local government
Explaining local government uniquely presents a history of local government in Britain since 1800 until the present day. The study explains how the institution evolved from a structure that appeared to be relatively free from central government interference to one of the most centralised systems ...
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Cold, hard steel
Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work.
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Tamburlaine the great
Authoritative version of this much loved play. Back in print after a dozen years with corrections and amendations. Part of MUP's strategy to have the complete works of Marlowe in print by the year 2000. Very popular edition by one of the most respected dramatic scholars.
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Women of letters
Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in t...
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Romantic women's life writing
Explores how the publication of women’s life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century
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The bad german and the good italian
This book describes how Italy elaborated a master narrative of the Second World War that evades the faults of Mussolini's fascist war by attributing all responsibility on the shoulders of the German ally
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A theory of the super soldier
Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality.
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Religion and rights
In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence.
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Counterfactual romanticism
Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory
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Britain and europe since 1945
This important book offers a refreshing and challenging perspective on the nature of history by analysing the character, role, functioning and wider uses of historiography. Taking British policies towards European integration since the Second World War as a case study, the author demonstrates how...
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Queer beyond london
Looking beyond the London-centric narratives of British LGBTQ life, this exciting book explores the queer dimensions of four English cities – Manchester, Leeds, Plymouth and Brighton.
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Réquiem por un campesino español
"Requiem per un campesino espanol" was first published under the title Mosen Millan in Coleccion Aquelarre,Mexico, 1953. The present text follows the first Spanish edition published by Destino, Barcelona, 1974, which bears a few minor variants, mainly in paragraph structure. It has been reprinted...
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France, humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect
This book provides the first comprehensive account of France’s relationship to human protection since the 1980s by investigating the mutual impact interconnected yet distinct domestic and international norms of human protection have had on each other over time.
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Depleting democracies
Depleting democracies explores the impact of radical right parties on their mainstream competitors, public policies regarding vulnerable groups and the respective polities in Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Black Sea. It argues that these parties drive a process of depletion that fundamenta...
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Mixed messages
Addresses a genuine gap in word and image studies. It offers fresh conceptual frameworks in which to think about the relationship between visual and verbal practices, with American works and artefacts positioned within the context of the American philosophical tradition.
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Carmen de burgos
This book offers the complete text of three novellas, along with vocabulary and explanatory notes to make them fully accessible to learners of Spanish from post-GCSE level and upwards. The introduction provides background on the author and her position in Spanish cultural, political and literary ...
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Imperial steam
Imperial steam explores the early history of a steamship route which was at the heart of the functioning of the British Empire. More so than the practical changes wrought by steam, the book argues that the modernity associated with the steamship provided a powerful imaginative frame of reference ...
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Querido diego, te abraza quiela by elena poniatowska
A critical edition of a modern Mexican classic, Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, with notes, vocabulary, a critical introduction and temas de debate.
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Neville chamberlain, appeasement and the british road to war
Re-examines the controversial policy of appeasement. The text suggests that the mood of the age in British society served to support appeasement, by analyzing the cluster of military, strategic, imperial and economic forces which served to justify it. The book argues that, when Neville Chamberlai...
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Surrealism and film after 1945
Surrealism and Film after 1945 is the first collection devoted to the vibrant culture of transnational surrealist cinema since the Second World War. Eleven chapters by leading and emerging scholars of surrealism and film studies establish the parameters of this history and situate surrealism as a...
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Feeling the strain
By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain.
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Pasticcio opera in britain
This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera, redefining it as method not genre, and recontextualising it among many artforms which created new works from pre-existing parts. Its history is interwoven with society’s transition from a predominantly oral to literate culture...
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Louis malle
This book analyses one of France's most controversial directors. It discusses Louis Malle's treatment of topics such as fascism, incest, child prostitution and the Holocaust. It is the first work published on the director in the English Language.
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Devolution in greater manchester and liverpool city region
This is the first comprehensive account of the policies of the Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region combined authorities during the first terms of Mayors Burnham and Rotheram, from 2017–21.
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Jamaican volunteers in the first world war
A groundbreaking study that uncovers the expereince of black Jamaican soldiers to provide a fresh historical insight into the First World War. A book that will appeal to undergraduates and general readers interested in warfare, Imperial and black history.
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The far right in the balkans
The first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the far right parties in the Balkans
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Everyday foreign policy
This book offers a framework for analysing grass roots politics in Russia. It challenges the assumption that international relations only happen on the high level and instead focuses on the way general population enacts and re-interprets significant foreign policy concepts such as sanctions, wars...
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James baldwin review
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.
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Localizing global sport for development
This book draws on a decade of research undertaken with young people and adults living and working in urban communities in Zambia to extend existing understandings of global sport for development.
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Covert colonialism
This book is the first comprehensive archive-based study to explore governance, surveillance, political culture and public policymaking in colonial Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997, using newly released archival documents in London and Hong Kong. Using historical discipline, it provides a thorough und...
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The new pornographies
Why do many of the most prominent books and films of the last decade return obsessively to the themes and imagery of pornography? Discussing many of France’s most successful and scandalous contemporary writers and directors, this book is the first to address this important trend.
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Imperial expectations and realities
A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities.
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A fig for fortune by anthony copley
Situates the poem in its political and religious context while offering a full textual analysis.
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Digital contention in a divided society
Representing the first in-depth qualitative study of how social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are used to mediate contentious public parades and protests in Northern Ireland, this book explores the implications of mis-and dis-information spread via online platforms for peacebuildin...
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Contemporary violence
The book unravels the story of the insurgencies in Kosovo and Chechnya, shedding new light on the social networks and narratives, the rifts, tensions and movements involved in the road to war in 1999.
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Human capital and empire
The book contrasts Scottish, Irish and Welsh involvement in early British imperialism in Asia and reflects on the ways in which this global connection impacted upon all three societies.
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Reframing remembrance
Reframing remembrance is an investigation into French cinema’s representation of the Second World War. Focusing on films released between 1995 and 2015, it argues that Jacques Chirac’s 1995 Vél’ d’Hiv speech heralded a generational shift in WWII commemoration in French cinematic storytelling.
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Beckett's dantes
The first study in English of the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is a clear and innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality
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Falling from grace
This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls’ Revolt of...
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Bartered bridegrooms
This book explores the experiences of Muslim men born and raised in Pakistan and Kashmir who migrate after marrying British Pakistani nationals. The book particular focuses on the impact of migration and marriage on their masculinity.
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Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century
This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and perceptions of the self.
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Hartly house, calcutta
This novel represents a key document in the literary representation of India and the imperial debate, profoundly challenging pre-existent discourses of colonialism.
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La vida de lazarillo de tormes
The Spanish novella La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades was published anonymously in Alcalá de Henares, Burgos and Antwerp in 1554. It is most famous as the book establishing the style of the picaresque satirical novel.
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Donors, technical assistance and public administration in kosovo
This book looks beyond the apparently united and generally self-congratulatory statements of The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and many large bilateral aid donors to examine what actually happened when they tried to work together in restoring stability and establishing g...
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Solvent form
This highly original study examines the destruction of art, both through objects that have been destroyed and as a process within art that the object courts through form. Against this, it maps a tendency wherein individuals attempt to conceptually gather destroyed or lost objects, hoping somehow ...
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'curing queers'
Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, 'Curing queers' examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive ‘treatment’ for homosexuality...
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Precarious childhood in post-independence ireland
This book reveals the desperate plight of the poor, neglected, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them.
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Innovation by demand
Brings together a range of sociologists and economists to study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process
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Anti-colonial research praxis
This book centres the perspectives of First Nations and majority-world researchers and provides insightful descriptions of anti-colonial research praxis from around the world. By engaging with the diverse examples, reflections, and methodological knowledge in this collection, readers will change ...
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Neoliberal gothic
A comprehensive study of how different Gothic forms have adapted, engaged with and represented the neoliberal agenda across the globe.
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Justifying violence
Offers a deep engagement with developments at the intersection of Habermasian communicative ethics and international relations.
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The political economy of turkey’s integration into europe
The political economy of Turkey’s integration into Europe studies the trajectory of Turkey’s integration with Europe from a critical political economy perspective in the last two decades.
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Roots of the pax americana
This fascinating book examines how and why Americans built an informal trading empire and why the British Empire needed to be removed before a Pax Americana could be built. It offers a systematic explanation for the rise of this super empire, and explains in detail how it is governed.
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The invisible flâneuse?
This collection of essays applies the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France – painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, posters – resulting in a subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisian modernity, the stomping ...
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Sir gawain and the green knight
Dual text on facing pages, now revised and updated edition of this Middle English Arthurian romance. Critically acclaimed translation now in its twenty fifth year. Extensive notes, glossary and introduction.
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Struggles for a past
Examines the construction of ethnic communities, and of multicultural policy, in post-war England. It explores how Irish and Afro-Caribbean immigrants responded to their representation as alien races by turning to history.
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War crimes and crimes against humanity in the rome statute of the international criminal court
This book provides a critical analysis of the definitions of war crimes and crimes against humanity as construed in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
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Pistols in st paul's
Investigating a series of cutting-edge acoustic experiments in twentieth-century Britain, this unique book reveals how exciting new ideas from science and music had a lasting effect on architectural design.
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The culture of toleration in diverse societies
Discusses the modern concept of toleration in diverse societies
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Graveyard gothic
This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video games. The chapters incorporate discussion of Gothic texts from around the world, offering a compelling new account of the graveyard’s importance as a key location for Gothic art an...
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Health, disease and society in europe, 1500–1800
Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800 considers how the body was viewed by the medical profession from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and challenges established ideas in the field of medical history. It examines the provision of medical care in context and how it was shaped by th...
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Ending british rule in africa
On the eve of World War II, a small, impoverished group of Africans and West Indians in London dared to imagine the unimaginable: the end of British rule in Africa. In books, pamphlets, and periodicals, they launched an anti-colonial campaign that used publishing as a pathway to liberation. These...
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Critical theory and demagogic populism
This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt School’s relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of ‘modern demagogy’ and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox ‘populism studies’ and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institu...
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Martial races
This book provides an exploration of how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas became linked as the British Empire’s fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourses of ‘martial races.’
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Public schools and private education
An analysis of the Clarendon Commission (1861-64) and the Public School Acts showing their profound importance to the future and development of education in England.
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Race and riots in thatcher's britain
Through exploration of black British community activism in three geographical case studies, this book argues that the 1980-1 anti-police disturbances should be viewed as ‘collective bargaining by riot’. Utilising many original sources, it charts dichotomous attitudes towards public inquiries and ...
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Romantic narratives in international politics
Introducing insights from literary studies and narratology into international relations, this study examines the romantic narratives of pirates in Somalia, rebels in Libya and private military and security companies in Iraq.
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Drone imaginaries
The book demonstrates how cultural and emotional knowledge, made salient in aesthetic drone imaginaries, can provide an understanding of the effects of drone technology on human communities. Each chapter raises questions about the political function of art that engages with drone technology surve...
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Martha gellhorn: the war writer in the field and in the text
St. Louis-born Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. In this first critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism, Kate McLoughlin makes the connection between Gellhorn's intrepid progress through the war zone and her textual constructio...
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The irish amateur military tradition in the british army, 1854–1992
This book examines the framework in which Irish auxiliary forces, part-time soldiers of the British Army, have existed alongside their regular army counterparts and how they have interacted with wider society.
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Dr faustus: the a- and b- texts (1604, 1616)
Dr. Faustus is one of the jewels of early modern English drama, and is still widely performed today. Interestingly, the play has come down to the contemporary audience in two distinct versions that have become known as the 'A' and the 'B' texts. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen, who edited the ...
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Patient voices in britain, 1840–1948
This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery.
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Lawyers for the poor
This book examines the development of legal advice services in England, from their origins in ‘Poor Man’s Lawyer’ voluntary work in the 1890s, through the growth of mutual schemes and newspaper advice bureaux, and to the challenges of meeting the needs of socially-excluded groups in the post-war ...
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Knowing covid-19
This is an edited volume that draws on eight case studies to showcase how researchers in the humanities shone a light on some of the many hidden problems of COVID-19 – from the effects of racism to the risks of deploying shame; from how to design an effective instructional leaflet to how to commu...
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Sport and diplomacy
The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society.
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Sweden and ecological governance
This is about policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance and uses the Swedish case study to ask whether it is possible to move form a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable development, as illustrated through the ‘Sustainable Sweden’ progr...
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European cities
European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a collection of empirical and theoretical scholarly analyses of multiple urban processes across the East-West European divide, inviting the reader to reimagine urban Europe from non-Eurocentric perspectives, and to engage active thought and thou...
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Picturing the romantic
Picturing the Romantic redefines European Romanticism by exploring its transnational connections in the visual arts. This volume, featuring fifteen essays by established and emerging scholars, delves into various Romantic works of art, challenging conventional definitions and highlighting the dyn...
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Medicine, health and irish experiences of conflict, 1914–45
A wide ranging volume on medical history, that examines critical areas of health concerns in Ireland through the World Wars.
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Secret shakespeare
In this volume, Wilson asks why Shakespeare remained so enigmatic about his religious beliefs, and demonstrates how he constructed a self-concealing theatre of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise. This will be essential reading for all Shakespearean scholars, especially those with an interes...
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Bodily interventions and intimate labour
This volume is about the relationship between bodily interventions, intimate labour and bioprecarity. It considers how access to and regulations around different kinds of medical intervention create vulnerabilities, especially for minorities, racialized groups, queers and trans people.
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Irish women's writing, 1878–1922
Providing an important intervention in contemporary Irish cultural-critical debate, this collection explores how Irish women writers exercised their political concerns and influence through their literary outputs during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Peacemaking in the middle ages
This study explores the making of peace in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries based on the experiences of the kings of England and the kings of Denmark. It offers a vision of how relationships between rulers were regulated and maintained in a period before nation states and internati...
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She-wolf
She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature.
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Queenship in britain 1660–1837
Queenship in Britain 1660–1837 looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. With contributions from an international group of scholars this book br...
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