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  • - Elites at the End of the Establishment
    av Aeron Davis
    171 - 807

    Aeron Davis looks at the growing crisis of leadership in Britain today. He argues that increasingly self-interested elites are not only damaging society they are destroying the basis of Establishment rule itself. The book, based on over 350 elite interviews, asks: how did we end up producing the leaders that got us here and what can we do about it? -- .

  • av Steven King
    1 117

    This book explores the medical world of the poor and the Old Poor Law in the period 1750-1834. Encountering the sick poor in their own words and everyday situations, I offer a new and more positive view of English welfare. -- .

  • - Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England
    av Robert Ingram
    467 - 1 167

    Reformation without end conceives of eighteenth-century English history as a late chapter in the nation's long Reformation. Contemporaries thought that the Reformation had caused two bloody seventeenth-century English revolutions. -- .

  • av Sukanta Chaudhuri
    1 181

    An essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology. The full-length introduction offers a historical and critical analysis of the pastoral tradition and the circulation of texts. -- .

  • - The Dark Side of Politics
    av Wyn Grant
    207

    This book assesses the challenges that lobbying, particularly by big business and 'lobbyists for hire' poses for democracy and suggests how it can be effectively regulated. -- .

  • - Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Postcolonial?
    av Catherine Baker
    477 - 1 181

    This study argues that, contrary to many assumptions, Yugoslavia and its successor states are deeply embedded in the global history and politics of 'race', and that the ambiguities of perceiving 'race' in the region's past and present in fact have complex historical roots. -- .

  • - Or, W. H. Auden and History
    av Carolyn Steedman
    477 - 1 081

    What is the point of poetry for historians? The answer lies in this new 'history of history', which looks at the question through the prism of W. H. Auden's Cold War history poems and of poetry and history education from the eighteenth century to the present day. -- .

  • - Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting
    av Grace Huxford
    1 117

    The Korean War in Britain is the first social history of the Korean War (1950-1953) in Britain. Assessing the impact of the war from 1950 to the early twenty-first century, this original book examines how British people responded to the Korean War and it came to be known as the 'Forgotten War' of the twentieth century. -- .

  • - Physical Impairment in British Coalmining, 1780-1880
    av Daniel Blackie & David M. Turner
    461

    This book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled people's working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Britain's Industrial Revolution. -- .

  • - Living with the Enemy in First World War France
    av James E. Connolly
    1 127

    A study of actual and perceived French civilian behaviours under German military occupation in 1914-18, from complicity and criminality to forms of resistance. Providing a new conceptual vocabulary, the book posits that an 'occupied culture' existed and guided civilian responses to the German presence, and each other. -- .

  • - The Morality of Capacity-Increasing Technologies in the Military
    av Jean-Francois (Associate Professor of Political Science at Nazarbayev University) Caron
    381 - 1 257

    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. -- .

  • - Race, Locality and Resistance
    av Shirin Hirsch
    311 - 687

    This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate of crisis in British society. -- .

  • av Matthew Pateman
    271 - 1 081

    A comprehensive analysis of Whedon's role in shaping the twenty-first-century TV landscape, featuring unique access to drafts of scripts and other source material. The book offers both detailed assessments of individual episodes and overarching histories of production. An essential and timely contribution to TV scholarship. -- .

  • - The Cultural Politics of Rock Against Racism
    av Ian Goodyer
    461 - 1 151

    Marching to the beat of punk rock and reggae, Rock Against Racism fought alongside the Anti-Nazi League against a resurgence of racist and fascist politics in 1970s Britain. This book analyses one of the biggest and most effective political mobilisations of the post-war period, demonstrating that popular music and mass protest can go hand in hand. -- .

  • - The Impossibilty of Reason
    av Matt Qvortrup
    381

    This exciting new text presents the first overview of JeanJacques Rousseau's work from a political science perspective. Was Rousseau--thegreat theorist of the French Revolution--really a conservative? -- .

  • - The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the First World War
    av Janet Lee
    347

    War Girls shares the stories of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), a group of audacious middle- and upper-class British women volunteers who nursed and worked as driver-mechanics during the First World War. It explores the ways the women subverted traditional mythologies about gender and imagined new cultural possibilities -- .

  • - Troublesome Subjects
    av Steve Poole
    347

    Reappraises the often complex relationship between British monarchs and some of their more troublesome subjects in the 'age of revolutions'. Casts new light upon the contested languages of constitutionalism, contract theory and the rights of petition and provokes fresh controversy over the viability of monarchies in the modern world. -- .

  • - Minds, Machines, and Monsters
    av John Sharples
    1 077

    This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period -- .

  • - An Exercise in Pluralist Political Theory
    av Allyn Fives
    1 261

    When and for what reasons does parents' power have legitimacy? How do we rationally justify such normative evaluations? A number of specific case studies are examined in detail and an argument is made for a pluralist approach both to the conceptualisation of power and to its normative evaluation. -- .

  • - Cultural Critique in Film and Television
    av Edward Tomarken
    277

  • - From Studio Realism to Location Realism in BBC Television Drama
    av Richard Hewett
    387 - 1 061

    This title is an historical overview and a then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama. -- .

  • - Writing Queer Transnational South Asian Art Histories
    av Alpesh Kantilal Patel
    391 - 1 131

    This monograph provides novel methods for writing transnational South Asian art history outside of genealogy. -- .

  • av Marcel Stoetzler
    197

    This book introduces students and educated general readers to thirteen key social theorists by way of examining a single, exemplary text by each author, ranging from Comte to Adorno. It answers the need for a book that helps students develop the skill to critically read theory. -- .

  • - An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory: Fourth Edition
    av Peter Barry
    187

  • - Stories from Modern Nomads
    av A. James Hammerton
    387 - 1 127

    This is the first book to explore the multiple country movement of migrants of the 'British diaspora' since the 1960s. It is an engaging oral history of migrant experiences and attitudes, based largely on intimate life histories which connect migration to life experiences like love and marriage, radical 'lifestyle' change and global identities. -- .

  • - The Difficult and Definitive Guide to What Video Games are
    av David Myers
    271

    In Game are not, David Myers demonstrates that current controversies and conflicts surrounding the meanings and effects of videogames are not going away; they are essential properties of the game's unique and paradoxical aesthetic form: a form critical to human creativity, knowledge, and sustenance of the species. -- .

  • - Spectacle, Legacy and Public Culture
    av Maurice Roche
    527 - 1 217

    Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, mark and influence, deeper social changes in the media, cities and global geopolitics. -- .

  • av Philip Norton
    237

  • - Continuity and Change in Radical Moral Politics, 1820-70
    av Tom Scriven
    1 127

    A major study into the changes in moral politics and culture of working-class Radicalism during a crucial period of modern British history. -- .

  • av Alannah Tomkins
    1 151

    Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery. -- .

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