Kenneth Norrie traces the assumptions that underlay child protection law at particular periods of time and identifies the pressures for change – giving a clearer understanding of how and why the contemporary law is designed and operates as it does.
This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain.
Xu Xu and Wumingshi were among the most widely read authors in China during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War... Læs mere
This Reader, featuring sixteen texts covering the core concepts and topics of Henri Meschonnic’s theory, will enrich, enhance and challenge your understanding of language.
Examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotland across the 20th century.
This book provides a multi-faceted way of assessing the British approach to refuge on local, state and regional levels, by intertwining the theories of hospitality and labelling before applying them to the study of refugees.
This interdisciplinary collection explores a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century.
This book considers portrayals of Pontius Pilate in film from the silent era to the twenty-first century.
Explores a series of unsung – and sometimes counterintuitive – resonances between second-wave feminism and queer theory in both Anglophone and Francophone contexts.
Security has become the pre-eminent organising principle of modern life, inextricably bound up with capital accumulation and Empire. This is the first... Læs mere
This anthology will bring James Connolly's writings – as pertinent in Ireland and the postcolonial world a century after his execution for leadership of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland as in his own lifetime – to a new global and Irish readership.
Follow this vividly recounted ghostly trail through spooky stories from the past and present by Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill.