How do Tory leadership elections work? Lee Evans takes a lively look at how the Conservatives appoint (and depose) their leader, from the early history of the party to the present day.
The first book to discuss regime legitimation in contemporary Russia after the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine.
Provides the first comprehensive account of the discursive formation of knowledge about Chinese literature produced by British Sinologists in the nineteenth century.
The first interdisciplinary comparative examination of populism in the cases of Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen.
Debunks the prevailing idea that the postmodern slasher film is distinguished by the employment of intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche, and deconstruction.
Analyses the resurgence of the radical Right and the psychodynamic basis of authoritarian politics.
Explores law’s constructions of time, illuminating key problems for sexual consent law and offering potential solutions.
This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read, Nobel Prize-winning short story writer Alice Munro
Uncovers the role of children’s periodicals in the development of charitable ideals for children between 1840–1930
Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and society.
Explores the ways in which Islam and European colonialism shaped modernity in the Indo-Malay world.
A creative and analytical study of important facets of classical Persian poetry.