Provides a deeply researched account of contemporary Asian art movements, focusing on the work of a select group of internationally renowned and politically engaged artists. -- .
Offers insights into how rural areas in Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era, through both world wars, and on into the twenty-first century. -- .
An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010 -- .
Explores the relationship between industry and the visual arts in the long nineteenth century, using new research to reveal surprising collaborations between craftspeople, inventors, engineers and educators. -- .
Draws on a wide range of cultural materials in order to challenge Eurocentric readings of decolonisation.
Provides a deeply researched account of contemporary Asian art movements, focusing on the work of a select group of internationally renowned and politically engaged artists. -- .
The editors have brought together eleven authors for an analysis of colonial and post-colonial nursing that spans nearly a century, and touches on Europe, Australia, the Caribbean and Africa -- .
Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria -- .
Incorporating original and extensive archival research, as well as new interviews with his family and friends, Anywhere Out of the World provides the definitive critical perspective upon the literary life and work of this enigmatic and influential author. -- .
Students and academics in Victorian literature and in English poetry.|Now available in paperback, this collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of this fascinating and complex figure. -- .
This book explores the evolution of Ireland’s national television service during its first tumultuous decade addressing how the medium helped undermine the conservative political, cultural and social consensus that dominated Ireland into the 1960s. -- .
A collection of translated legal sources charting the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c.1215-1485). Offers an... Læs mere