A powerful book that provides new interdisciplinary perspective on the functions of still and moving images in political conflict. -- .
Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colonial archives. -- .
Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule -- .
Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s -- .
The first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language. -- .
This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and... Læs mere
An invaluable compendium of sources relating to the Great Exhibition -- .
The aim of this book is to explain this anomaly, how and why independents can endure in a democracy that is one of the oldest surviving in Europe and has historically had one of the most stable party systems. -- .
Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. -- .
Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of... Læs mere
Provides the first detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the English Benedictine communities in exile during the seventeenth century, looking at their lived experiences, emotions and senses in religious life. -- .
An important intervention in one of the most heated issues of recent decades, this book investigates government campaigns to demonstrate toughness on immigration, and the wide-reaching consequences for migrants and citizens alike. engaged research. -- .