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This is the first book to portray what it's like to live next to a British Army base. England's military heartland investigates the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, listening to a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. Targeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK's global defence estate, this 'super garrison' offers unexplored opportunities to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment. In addition to the world-famous site of Stonehenge, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are also home to rare plants and wildlife. How does the army share responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Meanwhile the material traces of the colonial past inscribed on historic roads and buildings are a reminder of the legacy of perpetual war.

The book offers a novel lens to situate Europeanisation as violence from the cracks of triumphant narratives of progress. The collection pushes the established "toolkit" of postcolonial and postsocialist critique and their multifaceted "afterlives". It does so by relating historical processes and genealogies of Europeanisation around questions of labour, race, gender, infrastructure, heritage, memory, settler expansion, among others. The contributions stitch together a wide range of seemingly unrelated geo-histories of violence producing territories relationally, including postwar "Recovered Territories" of Western Poland and Madagascar, Ukraine and Dutch East Indies, Andalusia and Transylvania, Western Balkans and EuroAfrica, Yemen, Mediterranean and Saharo-Sahel, Chad and Central African Republic, Finland among others. The volume is an invitation for building theory across peripheries, between and against empires and state borders, what is called Souths and Easts as Method.

Anthony Burgess and America is a biographical and critical analysis of Burgess's decades long commentary on and relationship with the United States of America between the 1950s-1990s.Utilizing Burgess's entire oeuvre and hundreds of newly discovered archived materials, this book also evaluates the American inspirations in five Burgess novels: M/F (1971), The Clockwork Testament (1974), Earthly Powers (1980), The End of the World News (1982), and Enderby's Dark Lady (1984). In doing so, this essential new contribution to Burgess scholarship and discourse opens a nearly unexplored area of Burgess's life for investigation and evaluation. Using a wide range of new primary sources, frequently discussed topics by Burgess, such as culture, politics, race, education, obscenity, language, and literature in an American context, are discussed at length to understand how his entanglement with these commentaries influenced his fiction. Because of Burgess's enthusiastic immersion into mass media from the 1960s onward, Anthony Burgess and America also draws on the surviving record of the public persona that Burgess cultivated (the author, the journalist, the scholar, the teacher, the musician, and the popular chat-show entertainer) to assess the significance of his different forms of utterances.What emerges from such an approach is not just a complex personal and public history about one of Britain's greatest twentieth century authors, but also a story of his immersion into and interaction with American culture in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and early 90s. The overall effect is an original, new, and diverse cultural and biographical analysis of Burgess's American-inspired work.

Political economy of Turkey's integration to Europe: Uneven development and hegemony analyses trajectory of Turkey's integration with Europe from a critical political economy perspective. It embarks on historical materialism and considers position of social forces in Turkey with the help of two analytical categories, uneven development and hegemony. Critical approaches have been so long sidelined within European Studies. Turkish enlargement is not an exemption. Turkey's EU membership perspective has not yet been analysed as a book in English from a critical political economy perspective. The data is generated through 109 interviews conducted at two historical junctures with five categories of actors: representatives of capital and labour, political parties, state officials, and struggles around ecology, patriarchy and migration. Was the pro-membership hegemonic in the 2000s? Was there any alternative project opposing membership? How do pro-membership social forces sustain membership perspective in the 2010s in a conjuncture of crises of liberalism? How do critical social forces re-consider their position? The book argues that pro-membership was indeed hegemonic in the 2000s, which was contested by two rival class-strategies, Ha-vet (No to Capital's Europe, but yes to Social Europe) and neo-mercantilism. In the 2010s, pro-membership is no longer hegemonic with its social forces encountering difficulties to provide moral and intellectual leadership while critical tone of opposing social forces increase.The future trajectory is uncertain. Yet, pre-eminence of transactional cooperation provides hints that unevenness will be further consolidated through market integration and management of migration for the labour market between Turkey and the EU.

Passage Works explores the works of contemporary Austrian filmmaker, artist, and writer Ruth Beckermann (b. Vienna, 1952). Across her work in multiple media, Beckermann interrogates and critiques identity and geography as complex, shifting formations produced by multiple intersections between the past and the contemporary. Spanning over four decades, Beckermann's abiding thematic concern focuses on Austria's central role in an expanding Europe, its complex history and politics, her own identity and sense of 'unbelonging' as a post-war Jewish woman, and the contemporary global issues of migration and displacement. Her work extends these themes into wider meditations in film, art, and writing on the persistence of European memory and the meanings of Europe itself - on borders, migrations, and identities, and on memories, traumas, and traditions. She examines the image as a marker of presence and absence and a repository of historical violence, using the passage as metaphor for a range of physical, psychological, and ideological movements that define the complexities of contemporary cosmopolitan identities. Reading Beckermann's oeuvre within historical and theoretical contexts, this book elaborates on an expanded notion of passage that represents persistent transhistorical and transnational experience of movement between places, times, contexts, and conditions - above all, the post-memorial condition of being Austrian and Jewish in the aftermath of trauma.

Assemblages of cancer offers a comparative, in-depth analysis of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy, linking patients' experiences with the biomedical, political and cultural context of the disease. The book is based on ten years of ethnographic research with patients with breast cancer and medical professionals across the three countries. It shows how breast cancer experiences can be best understood as provisional assemblages involving transformed bodies, uncertainties linked to a possible relapse, and tinkering with standardised protocols and pathways to make treatments work for each patient. The analysis highlights the shared specificities and internal variations of breast cancer in the three countries. It explores how universal healthcare systems impacted by processes of privatisation, local variations in the workings of biomedicine, and local changes to the North-American pink ribbon discourses and advocacy, transform the experiences of breast cancer. The book presents an in-depth analysis of how breast cancer and its treatments alter not only women's bodies but also their personal and professional lives. It further analyses patients' strategies to attempt build new meaning and values around the uncertainties brought by cancer and counter its consequences. Assemblages of cancer is an essential contribution to the social studies of medicine that, by redefining the relations between illness, biomedicine, and society, develops a new understanding of breast cancer in contemporary Europe.

Is there a 'tradition' of British anti-racism? This volume brings together new, original scholarship to demonstrate that, if there is a meaningful tradition of 'British' anti-racism, it was created by citizens and subjects and it has been shaped by shifting imperial and transnational politics as well as national and local contexts. The volume traces how the history of anti-racism in Britain has been characterised at one end of the spectrum by paternalism and at the other end by solidarity, identifying this paternalistic-solidaristic spectrum as a major axis within British political culture. It examines the anti-racist and anti-imperialist alliances forged during the late nineteenth century, explores how anti-racist action shifted to decolonial state resistance and organising in the embers of empire, and analyses how histories and memories of racism and anti-racism were reframed and expressed at the turn of the millennium. Contributors identify moments of multi-ethnic solidarity between a range of communities and organisations, from trade unions to community 'self-help'. Chapters in this volume also pay attention to how cultural forms play a role in racial formation and anti-racist activism and alliances. Crucially, this volume explores anti-racism as a shifting and ongoing project of resistance with multiple points of geographic, intellectual and political origin and highlights a number of key continuities and fractures in the history of anti-racism in Britain.

Beyond nationalism presents a comprehensive theory of the common good of the European Union (EU) and proposes concrete policies and institutional reforms to improve its achievement. It commences with a discussion of the public values jointly endorsed by EU member states, which are seen to provide a basis for identifying a transnational common good. Labareda discusses the distinctive nature of the EU common good, which he associates with three main conditions: maintaining liberal democracy, enabling decent standards of social welfare, and ensuring a high level of environmental protection. Relying on a constructivist understanding of national interests, the author proposes a set of reforms that would allow the EU common good to be more strongly represented in the process of national interest formation in domestic politics. At the same time, he proposes significant changes in the Brussels institutional apparatus aimed at democratising the pursuit of the common good, including the creation of an EU Citizens' Assembly and the election of the presidents of the European Commission and the European Council. The book takes on board the idea that a willingness by EU citizens to recurrently sacrifice their interests for the sake of an EU common good would require stronger bonds of civic friendship among them. It proposes several policies to achieve this goal, including reducing socioeconomic inequalities in the EU, curtailing barriers against freedom of movement, and creating a transnational curriculum on EU citizenship.

Advertised in its Prologue as a prequel to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's The False One is the first literary work completely to revolve around the affair between Caesar and Cleopatra in Egypt. By frankly portraying the weakness and pettiness of such great historical personalities alongside their strength and nobility, the play brilliantly exposes Caesar and Cleopatra as flawed individuals who eventually turn out to be capable of transcending their own limits. Witty, fast-paced and laced with irony, The False One is informed by early modern discussions of issues connected with the role of courtiers, King James I's pacifist policy and the dangers of colonialism. In its deployment of the liaison between Caesar and Cleopatra as a venue for the exploration and criticism of contemporary political manoeuvring and its high-spirited and pungent appropriation of Roman history, The False One proves to be one of the most compelling Jacobean dramatizations of the classical past. This Revels Plays edition offers the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of The False One, with a thorough introduction that provides new insights on the date and the theatre of the play's first performance, examines the playwrights' imaginative reworking of their classical and contemporary sources, and explores the considerable theatrical potential of a play that has hitherto regrettably been lost to the dramatic repertory. With its modernized spelling and detailed on-page commentary, this edition makes the play newly accessible to readers, students and theatre practitioners.

Russian Orientalism in a global context examines the various ways in which Russia's artistic praxis was affected by encounters - both real and imagined - with the cultures and representational and material traditions of the so-called East or Vostok. Following the Napoleonic wars, the Russian Empire's expansionist campaigns led to the annexation of new lands in the Caucasus and Central Asia, resulting in the assimilation of religiously and ethnically diverse groups of people. However, given the country's perpetually conflicted self-identification as neither fully European nor Asian, the demarcations between "self" and "other" remained ambiguous and elusive, resulting in an Orientalist mode that was prone to hybridity, syncretism, and even self-Orientalization. This volume reconsiders the relationship between Russia and its non-Western neighbors, looking at how artists, architects, and designers engaged with this relationship from the mid-eighteenth century until the 1930s. It interrogates how Russia's perception of its position on the periphery of the West and its simultaneous self-consciousness as a colonial power shaped its artistic and cultural identity. The volume also explores the extent to which cultural practitioners participated in both the advancement and the critique of Russia's colonial machinery, especially in territories that were on the fault lines between the East and the West.

Tattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c. 1955 to present). The book aids our understanding of the crime and detective genre and the ways in which tattoos act as a mimetic device that marks and remarks these narratives in complex ways. Tattooing is focused on as a bodily narrative, incorporating the critical perspectives of posthumanism, spatiality, postcolonialism, embodiment and gender studies. The importance of the tattoo is explored through analysis of the writings of early genre exponents of detective fiction including Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the contemporary rebirth of the tattoo through the writings of Stieg Larsson, Sarah Hall, Alan Kent, Caryl Férey, Jeffery Deaver, Peter Robinson and China Miéville, amongst others. The volume includes a separate section on children's literature, examining the work of J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket in particular. Sections on film and television focus on Christopher Nolan's Memento, adaptations of the Bounty mutiny, and the television series Supernatural, Dark angel, Criminal minds, CSI: NY, and Law and order. The collection will have a broad appeal, and will be of interest to all literature and media scholars, but in particular those with an interest in crime and detective narratives, and skin studies.

In 1615, clergyman Jeremiah Dyke exclaimed 'surely wee never beginne to know Divinitie or Religion, till wee come to know our selves.' His clarion call, along with the 'devotional turn' in early modern historiography, urges us to look again at how ordinary men and women lived out their faith during extraordinary times. People and piety is an interdisciplinary collection that investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divided into two sections, it examines the 'sites' where these identities were forged (the academy, printing house, household, theatre and prison) and the 'types' of texts that expressed them (spiritual autobiographies, religious poetry and writings tied to the ars moriendi). The picture of 'lived religion' that emerges takes in such familiar figures of England's Long Reformation as George Herbert, Richard Baxter, Oliver Heywood and Katherine Sutton, while also shedding light on some of their lesser-known contemporaries, including Isaac Archer, Mary Franklin and Katherine Gell. Through cutting-edge and archival research, the book shows that piety did not define people - it was people who defined their piety. Featuring a mixture of established and emerging scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, People and piety will be of interest to those studying and teaching religion and identity in early modern England, and anyone concerned with the history of religious self-expression.

This extensive edited collection is devoted to the work of the 2017 Nobel Literature Laureate, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, featuring contributions from the most established Ishiguro scholars. It contains major new essays on each of his novels, including the first published essay on Klara and the Sun, as well as his short story collection Nocturnes, and his screenplays. Situating Ishiguro's work within current debates regarding modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, the essays examine his engagement with the defining concerns of the contemporary novel, including national identity, Britishness, cosmopolitanism, memory, biotechnology, terrorism, Brexit, immigration and populist politics. Discussing Ishiguro both as a British and global author, this book contributes to debates regarding the politics of publishing of ethnic writers, examining how Ishiguro has managed to shape a career in resistance to narrow labelling where many other writers have struggled to achieve long-term recognition. The Introduction examines Ishiguro's body of work as a whole and Ishiguro's evolving literary reputation in light of his recent personal and commercial success. The book then offers individual essays on each of Ishiguro's novels, his short story collection, his television and film work, as well as his recent journalistic interventions. Each essay extends and updates existing criticism on Ishiguro via engagement with the most up-to-date critical frameworks, while at the same time staying true to each text's most prominent thematic concerns. With prominent contributors and comprehensive coverage, this will be the definitive volume of Ishiguro scholarship for years to come.

Following the UK's 2016 decision to leave the European Union, discussions surrounding the entangled histories of empire, colonialism, racial justice and decolonisation have become topics of national interest and fierce public debate in Britain. This book brings into view the historical and cultural background to these contemporary debates by exploring the local histories, texts and institutions of empire which have shaped Britain since 1945. In doing so, the diversity of Britain's 'postcolonial' history and society is emphasised and the depth and breadth of the Empire's legacies are revealed. Bringing together intersecting inquiries in history, literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology and more, this collection explores how the cultural legacies of empire shaped everyday British life, from the postwar era to the present day. Featuring chapters on gig venues, beauty salons, bestselling memoirs and more, this journey across post-imperial Britain investigates how the colonial past is firmly embedded in local and national cultures alike. To do so, the book uses a wide range of methodologies, from close textual analysis of literary and historical sources, to archival research and spatial analysis. When viewed in concert with one another, these offer a view of Britain after the end of the Empire which connects the steps of the British Museum to community-based theatre spaces in West Yorkshire.

This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.

Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko. Taking a pioneering approach to this intersecting cultural milieu, the book uses a unique methodology that draws on queer theory, dance studies and the analysis of movement, deportment and gesture to look anew at familiar artists and artworks, but also to bring to light queer artistic figures' key cultural contributions to the 1960s New York art world. Illustrated with rarely published images and written in clear and fluid prose, Horizontal together will appeal to specialists and general readers interested in the study of modern and contemporary art, dance and queer history.

States of enmity establishes the central role of interpersonal enmity and peace-making in the society of southern Italy in the seventeenth century. It demonstrates the roles enmity, in its diverse manifestations, played in early modern politics, legal culture and social relations. Through analysing the effects of hatred and reconciliation, the book charts a history of Spanish Naples, spotlighting its most evocative yet misrepresented characters: violent bandits and the unruly soldiers set against them; overbearing feudal lords and restive vassal; intrepid missionaries and penitent murderers; grand Spanish viceroys and poor Neapolitan rebels. Notably, this monograph is a rare example of research on early modern southern Italy that uses records from criminal courts, providing the closest encounter with the actual people involved in Naples' notorious 'disorder', constituted by homicide, banditry, feudal oppression and the Spanish regime's governing tactics. This book shows how states of public enmity and practices of peace-making structured both local politics and the central state's interaction with the provinces of the kingdom. The Kingdom of Naples was one of the most violent regions of Europe in the early modern period, States of enmity explores why this was so.

Living with Lodgers takes the reader behind the closed doors of Victorian England's domestic dwelling lodgings. For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else's home was commonplace. Indeed, at no other time has the lodger occupied such a central place in the home. Yet, despite this, lodgers and the households that accommodated them have remained significantly under-researched. This is the first book-length study to tell their story. Drawing on almost 900 coroners' inquests reported in the Victorian press, alongside census enumerators' books and other court records, this captivating book delves into the day-to-day business of lodging in someone else's home. Challenging many current perceptions and myths surrounding living with lodgers in Victorian England, this book reveals a much more complicated picture behind the who and why of domestic dwelling lodgings, examines the close networks and monetary arrangements that shaped the lodging exchange, and explores the daily interactions between lodgers and householders. Moreover, in exploring both the lines drawn and crossed in the householder-lodger relationship, this book reshapes our understanding of household dynamics in the Victorian working-class home. Living with Lodgers not only brings the domestic dwelling lodger out of the shadows but casts a new light upon Victorian England's working-class homes, making the book a vital resource for academics and students across a range of disciplines seeking to cross the threshold to these spaces.

This is the first book to examine the academic and activist career of the forgotten US sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller (1875-1951). Miller was associated with the Chicago school of sociology, but his role is neglected. He was one of the first critics of eugenics and was an active supporter of racial equality and mixing in Jim Crow America. He was a life-long associate of W.E.B. Du Bois and had a long-term association with Fisk University. He criticised assimilation (Americanization) as a goal of immigration policy and was an early advocate of multiculturalism. He was a critic of empire within Europe and of European empires globally and argued for the self-determination of subject minorities. He believed revolution against imperial domination to be necessary, but warned of new forms of oppression deriving from ethno-nationalist movements. His sociological arguments were integral to his involvement in civil society movements for racial justice, the formation of the Mid-European Union of subject peoples (through which he drafted the Czechoslovakian Declaration of Independence), support of Korean independence and the Indian satyagrahi movement of Mahatma Gandhi. Opposed by the Ku Klux Klan, he was dismissed by Ohio State University for his political activities in 1932.

This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards.

How did ordinary men and women dress in the early modern period?Did they rely on cost-effective alternatives to the silks, jewellery, and ornate decorations favoured by the wealthy elite? Or did those with modest means find innovative ways to express their fashion sense? Refashioning the Renaissance provides new perspectives on early modern clothing by investigating the meaning of fashion among the 'popular' classes. Combining archival and pictorial evidence, historical reconstruction, hands-on experimentation, and scientific textile analysis, the book explores how men and women of artisan rank created a fashionable look and adapted to the evolving dynamics of the day. Offering a close examination of the materials, craftmanship, and cultural significance of both new and traditional fashion itemsavailable to a broad group of consumers, Refashioning the Renaissancechallenges conventional assumptions that suggest the everyday dress of ordinary early modern families was limited to a narrow selection of garments made of coarse textiles, often produced at home and resistant to change.

This book reexamines slave trading in the early Middle Ages from a comparative perspective, situating it at the core of economic and political development in northern and eastern Europe. In focusing on the 'slaving zones' centred around the British Isles and the Czech lands, Fontaine traces the forced migration of enslaved people from the point of capture to their destinations across Europe, the North Atlantic, North Africa, and western Asia. The crux of the book are the changes of the ninth and tenth centuries prompted by increased demand, principally in the Islamic world as well as areas of Viking settlement. The desire to source more and more slaves led to changes in the practice of warfare to maximise captive taking, the logistics of slave trading and rulers' legal and economic relationships with slavery. By spanning the seventh through the eleventh centuries, this important study traces the growth, climax, and decline of slave trading in the early Middle Ages and establishes its role as a driver of connectivity.

Italy is synonymous with fashion. Fashion is one of the country's leading exports, and Italian brands are recognised and coveted across the world. But this was not always the case. Traditional accounts of the ascent of Italian fashion begin in 1951, when Giovanni Battista Giorgini hosted the first Italian High Fashion Show at his home in Florence. Becoming couture offers a compelling counter-narrative. Tracing continuities between the Fascist period and the First Republic, the book reveals the links between the private companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations that worked to promote the international launch of Italian fashion. It also examines the impact of the Second World War on fashion intermediaries, showing that the experience gained from 'silent' assignments during the conflict improved their performance in peacetime. Identifying the years 1944 to 1953 as the decisive period for the strengthening of the Italian fashion offer, Becoming couture sheds light on the challenges of reconstructing Italy, both physically and in terms of image. At the same time, it tells the story of a creative industry finally achieving recognition in the international market.