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The first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire -- .

Redefining the French Republic is an innovative work. Explicitly adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture. -- .

Modern-spelling edition of the two works, allows the twenty-first century reader access to this culturally significant text. -- .

A study of the rape-revenge film. Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the post-1970 period.

This full-length study of Hermann Schotten's life and work is a companion to Peter Macardle's edition of the Confabulationes. -- .

Immigration and social change in the Republic of Ireland addresses citizenship and constitutional change, returned emigrants, the economic contribution of immigrants, the exploitation of migrant workers, asylum seekers and forced migrants, immigrant communities, politics, integration models and social policy. -- .

A back-in-print edition of this play by Francis Beaumont, one half of the leading playwriting partnership of Beaumont and Fletcher. Fully annotated, with a historical and critical introduction, detailed commentary and appendices. -- .

A collection of sixteen essays by Simon Adams on Elizabethan history, centring around Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. -- .

This lucidly-written text is aimed at students and teachersof American politics who have little or no previous knowledge of the UnitedStates Supreme Court, the third co-equal branch of national government. -- .

A study of Roosevelt's New Deal, examining the debates and controversies that surrounded its implementation and practice, uncovering the meanings, flaws and outcomes of US domestic policy from the Depression to the outbreak of the Second World War. includes fascinating source material from Government records and the private papers of Roosevelt. -- .

This book interrogates the widespread claim thatcontemporary globalization has ended the centrality of the state in worldaffairs and is effectively irreversible. It offers discriminating definitionsof globalization, internationalization and international interdependence anddemonstrates difficulties generated by these concepts. -- .

provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge. -- .

This text traces the historically changing image of non-white people in British advertising during the colonial period. It reveals the historical and production context of many advertising icons and also develops a detailed textual analysis of the images.

"First published by Manchester University Press in hardback in 2008"--Title page verso.

Fears of conspiracy and political terrorism are not confined to our own time - they were central to the French Revolution. This is the first major study of political conspiracies at this momentous epoch in history. -- .

A biography of Britain's first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster.

Presents the most informative and comprehensive analysis of commitology currently available. -- .

The medieval landscape, as traditionally viewed, was hardly populated by women - aside from the occasional queen, mistress, abbess, or mystic. This study aims to fill that gap by examining the experiences and voices of young medieval womanhood.

This text offers a sophisticated analysis of central political concepts in the light of debates in political theory. It introduces students to some of the main interpretations, pointing out their strengths and weaknesses, including a range of the main concepts employed in contemporary debates.

The primary focus of this collection is the laity, in particular the ideas and ideals of lay people. The essays range chronologically and geographically from the 7th century to the eve of the Reformation, from Western Britain to papal and urban Italy.

This edition seeks to evaluate the play not merely as a literary text but as a drama for a particular company within a particular theatre. The introduction explores the degree of originality in Marston's dramatic techniques and establishes him as a leading innovator in the dramaturgy of his day.

This text explores written representations of First World War experience by a variety of women. It investigates the interface between such writing and the development of literary modernisms, focusing on an engagement with issues of gender which remains topical today.

Brings together chapters on the bestseller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror. The text combines an accessible account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction, with readings of authors such as Jackie Collins and Jilly Cooper.

This edition contains an introduction which looks at the special place of the play in Jonson's own life, his interest in London, the theatrical setting of the play and its sources and analogues. It also includes critical and explanatory commentaries and a glossarial index.

Traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. This book examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho.

Discusses the modern concept of toleration in diverse societies -- .

A thorough analysis of Britain's economic policy under the Labour governments in the 1960s. -- .

This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading 'Catholic historians' and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography -- .

The central concern of Race and representation is the political integration of Britain's ethnic minorities. The book provides a direct and extensive comparison between the voting behaviour of ethnic minorities and the electorate as a whole. -- .

A standard reference work on re-drawing the map of constituencies in the UK which provides the only detailed insight into how that task is currently undertaken. -- .