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This book develops a novel framework for studying relational peace and applies it to several empirical cases. It contributes to a more nuanced understanding of peace, beyond the absence of war, by recognising peace as a web of multiple interactions across time, space and levels of analysis.

This book analyses the normative avoidance of cyber-espionage, arguing that it is neither prohibited nor authorised by international law. This situation did not emerge by chance but through the purposeful silence of States, leaving them free to pursue cyber-espionage themselves at the same time as they both try to prevent and fall victim to it.

How do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.

Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism is an important intervention into social reproduction theory and eco-socialist debates. It provides a timely analysis of the role of expropriation in the current global water crisis and makes a persuasive argument for understanding class as an emergent process constituted through struggle.

This book addresses the vexed status of literary value, focusing on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, using Chaucer studies as a case in point. It explores how we may reconcile literary value's inevitability with its uncertainties and complicities, seeking to forge a viable rationale for literary studies generally.

This book analyses the 1970-74 Conservative Government's failure to 'depoliticise' its role in industrial relations as it imposed a new legal framework to discipline trade unions. Through analysis of recently released primary documents, it provides new insights into the strategic failings and industrial disputes that brought down the government.

This book examines the preaching and printing of sermons by royalists during the English Revolution. It shows how and why preaching became an indispensable tool for those who sought to resist the seismic changes in Church and state that England experienced between 1640 and 1662.

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 for narrating Britain's place in its imperial world.

The comparative ethnography of young airtime sellers in Abidjan and delivery riders in Berlin analyses experiences of precarity for young men in the urban digital economy. It points to the relevance of symbolic capital in relational mechanisms of closure, domination and exploitation for making a living in globalised precarity.

This is the first book to focus on women illustrators in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It features critical essays by an international group of scholars on fourteen women illustrators from Britain, Canada and the United States.

Blending theatre history and sensory studies this book recaptures the sound of early modern drama, acknowledging its intangibility while attempting to both describe those sounds heard on the stage and to try and identify those sound's effects on the playgoers.

This book brings leading historians of South Africa together to consider new methodological and theoretical approaches within the field.

Charting the decline and recent resurgence of the landed gentry in British public life, The fall and rise of the English upper class explores how traditionalist worldviews, centred on kinship, inheritance, and the image of the house, have come to shape our politics and culture.

This book documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations in Australia, Britain and Germany who grew up in the shadow of the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, through the intimate experience of coming after, they have played a key role in shaping the memory of the First World War since 1918

How does our perception of time shape our political ideas and commitments? This cutting-edge monograph makes a major contribution to the history of time by exploring how thinkers and activists of the French radical left and right conceived of the past, present and future in the period between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War.

Newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars with chapters on the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, this book offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new thematic and stylistic insights

This is the first edited collection on Hari Kunzru. With new individual essays on each of Kunzru's novels as well as his short fiction and creative non-fiction, the book situates his writing within current debates on contemporary literature, and in relation to key historical events such as Brexit, the election of Trump, and the Covid-19 pandemic.