This deeply researched new book questions this assumption. It shows that English associations once were widespread, taking hold in colonial America, spreading to Canada and then encompassing all of the empire. -- .
This volume brings together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the ‘new’... Læs mere
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 bold inter-disciplinary study analyses the history, retention and development of frontier processes in the Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. -- .
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. -- .