This book is an intellectual biography of EP Thompson, as well as an exercise in the sociology of knowledge: as such, it considers not just Thompson’s ideas and arguments, but also the question of why he adopted those ideas, and made those arguments. -- .
In this highly original contribution to knowledge about a little-known subject: the history of nursing work, Christine Hallett explores the nature and meaning of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War -- .
This is an accessible and informative guide to the evolution of the concept of crimes against humanity- a hugely influential concept which has had a marked impact on modern international politics, law and ethics. -- .
The first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, locating André Téchiné within historical and cultural contexts that include the... Læs mere
This book comparitively explores the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- .
This book analyses video games like Grand Theft Auto and Resident Evil as aesthetic objects. Drawing on philosophical theories of art from Kant to Ranciere, it focuses... Læs mere
Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms... Læs mere
The first book-length history of the classic French children’s author, the comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown... Læs mere
Offers a fresh and original approach to the masculinities, subjectivities and emotions of working-class young men, and makes a distinctive contribution to the history of leisure and interwar youth. -- .
This book addresses the Anglo-American special relationship from the perspective of post-Second World War British governments. -- .
'Realism' is a term which is key to understanding, amongst other things: the novel genre, Victorian literature, modernism, and postmodernism. This study recognises that realism is every bit as complex as other modes of representation and requires a similar level of critique.
This book offers a unique and compelling study of the worldviews and factors that promoted, or indeed opposed, antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War. -- .