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Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that unravelled during the decades of global decolonisation -- .

This innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of 'encounter' to provide dynamic readings The Book of Margery Kempe in the twenty-first century. Incorporating thirteen original chapters and a critical introduction, it offers myriad exciting approaches to this important and ever-surprising medieval text. -- .

This collection of essays stages a dialogue between leading Beckett scholars and media theorists and offers the first sustained critical enquiry into Beckett as a media artist and his intermedial work. -- .

A unique and worthwhile examination of EU relations with South America in the first decades of the twenty-first century, focusing in particular on the evolution of negotiations for new generation preferential trade agreements. -- .

By drawing on geology's approaches to studying porosity, the book takes an innovative approach arguing that similarly to rocks and minerals that only appear solid and impermeable, seemingly impenetrable borders are inevitably traversed by different forms of passage. -- .

This attempt at a 'Capital for the 21st century' asks how commodities, money and capital have changed. Combining Soviet and post-Soviet critical Marxism with Western Marxism and political economy with culture and theorizes knowledge and information commodification; simulacra markets; financialization; creative work; and market fundamentalism. -- .

The French mutinies of 1919 stretched from the Soviet Union through to France's naval ports. It is the first study to try to understand the subjective world of the mutineers. -- .

Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. -- .

This timely volume analyses the Northern League under its founder Umberto Bossi (1991-2012). As a well-led mass party, the League has much to teach political scientists today on the reasons behind populist growth, endurance and success. -- .

Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain. -- .

This book examines the 'fall of the angels' tradition in early medieval sermons, saints' lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to express their ideas concerning ecclesiastical and secular power. -- .

From abstinence to ego, mastery to addiction, rage to reinvention, our compulsions are intertwined with our personas. Darkly funny and vividly penetrating, Everything Harder Than Everyone Else explores our deeper selves and asks: what are your limits? -- .

Postmodern, postcolonial, and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge? And who exactly were the 'post boys' responsible for this? This book traces the emergence and popularity of post-concepts through a wide range of genres and fields. -- .

This book examines the intersection between national and international counter-terrorism policies and civil society in national and regional contexts in the post-9/11 era. It serves as a critical discussion accounting for the experiences of civil society in the enforcement of global security measures by governments in the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Europe and the Middle East. -- .

This book provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on the importance of detailed rules to many of the world's ethical traditions. A valuable theoretical introduction sets the agenda for a series of comparative studies, spanning pre-modern Hindu ethics, Classical Rome and Christian casuistry, contemporary Judaism and the Islamic sharia. -- .

This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and various black radical traditions. -- .

European settlers in Canada, Australia and South Africa said they were building ''better Britains'' overseas. But their new societies were frequently threatened by devastating wars, rebellions, epidemics and natural disasters. It is striking that settlers turned to old traditions of collective prayer and worship to make sense of these calamities. At times of trauma, colonial governments set aside whole days for prayer so that entire populations could join together to implore God''s intervention, assistance or guidance. And at moments of celebration, such as the coming of peace, everyone in the empire might participate in synchronized acts of thanksgiving. Prayer, providence and empire asks why occasions with origins in the sixteenth century became numerous in the democratic, pluralistic and secularised conditions of the ''British world''.

This Revels Plays edition of Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris opens up this powerful dramatisation of the French Wars of Religion to student and scholar through its comprehensive introduction, full collation and commentary notes, and an appendix containing a fragment from a lost, fuller version of the play. -- .

This edited collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dichotomous view of these two major poets and to shift the critical conversation towards a more holistic, relational view of the two authors' poetics and thought. -- .

This original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain. -- .

Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors -- .

Assembling cultures charts the development of workplace activism in the British motor industry between 1945 and 1982. -- .

This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in post-war England. It offers a fresh perspective on the idea that 'sex killed God', reframing dominant approaches to the histories of sex, religion and social change. -- .

This book examines the vital role of affect and feeling within the work of the early Frankfurt School. The author investigates a range of concepts - including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects, and mimesis - and argues that a contemporary reading of critical theory needs to accommodate an adequate understanding of affect. -- .

This collection offers the first in-depth study of the radio medium's significance as a site of artistic experimentation for the literary neo-avant-garde in the postwar era. It addresses institutional and contextual aspects of audio drama, as well as intermedial and material issues alongside ideological and political topics. -- .

Life after war is intrinsically political for former combatants. As wars end, societies and former combatants face a period of transition. This book explores the experience of coming home for former combatants, capturing the challenges and opportunities for political mobilization among former combatants as they return from three very different wars: South West Africa People's Organization combatants who participated in the Namibian War of Independence (1966-90); guerrillas from Movimiento 19 de Abril who joined the ongoing guerilla warfare conducted against the Colombian state (1974-90), and combatants from the United States who participated in the Vietnam War (1955-75). Offering an insightful perspective on peace as a process through the long-term study of the lives of fifty former combatants, Sderstrm demonstrates how the process of coming home shapes their political commitment and identity. Combining detailed scholarship with interviews with former combatants, this volume serves as a powerful reminder of the legacies of war in the lives of former combatants.

This book discusses changes that have taken place in diplomatic institutions and conventions over thousands of years. It analyses these changes in terms of 'tipping points', which it understands as the culmination of long-term trends. -- .

This book presents a radical reconsideration of the role of key players in developing an organised, politically oriented antisemitism in Vienna in the decades leading to the 1938 Anschluss. It pays particular attention to the clergy and how their antisemitism fitted the worldview of an authoritarian, hierarchical society. -- .

Madrid on the move offers an account of illustrated print culture and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Spain. It provides a fresh account of modernity from a transnational perspective. Drawing on different kinds of printed images and texts, the book explores what being modern meant to people in their daily lives. -- .

This book examines the intersections between post-apartheid urban transformation and the politics of heritage-making in divided cities, using the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa's Eastern Cape as a case study. This author examines how the twin processes of memory-making and change have played out in Nelson Mandela Bay. -- .