A comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. -- .
Documents for the first time a representative sample of Irish immigrant families and uses the techniques of family and digital history to explore their long-term fate. -- .
Challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent. -- .
Examines the origins and effects of the use of interrogation techniques known as the ‘five techniques’. Through its in-depth... Læs mere
The book constructs a case for re-imagining Europe – not as an entity in Brussels or a series of fixed relations – but as a simultaneously real and imagined space of action which exists to the extent that Europeans and others act in and on it. -- .
Exposes the inner workings of inquisitions in medieval France through expert translations of primary sources. -- .
A wide-ranging, informative, stimulating and inventive study of an essential element of cinema. -- .
Analyses the attempted reform of the Poor Law system in Ireland between 1910 and 1932. This period represented one of the most formative and crucial eras in Irish politics and society with the ideas of culture, nation, state and identity widely contested. -- .
Investigates women’s employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the twentieth century, providing a new perspective on the development of the women’s movement. -- .
An exciting and cutting-edge volume of essays, which collectively and singularly aim to challenge the conventions of connectivity and relationality in social theory and description through a serious and crucially ethnographic reflection on the category of ‘detachment’ -- .
Concentrates on the fascinating life and work of Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546–1611) and his... Læs mere
Traces Ireland’s introduction of FOI legislation and considers its use and operation from a series of perspectives, looking at the Irish experience in a truly international context -- .