How do British elections work? What about local elections and by-elections? Dick Leonard, a political journalist and former MP, and Roger Mortimore, an opinion... Læs mere
This timely book assesses the legacy of both the Third Way and its critics. Analysing the relationship between social theory and political... Læs mere
The HIV/AIDS pandemic striking South Africa is of historic proportions. Just in the past decade, the life expectancy in South Africa has dropped... Læs mere
In this book he brings together a vast amount of experience to show the, 'best practices' of the... Læs mere
Myths of Power - Anniversary Edition sets out to interpret the fiction of the Brontë sisters in light of a Marxist analysis of the historical conditions in which it was produced.
Palgrave Advances in William Blake Studies is a comprehensive guide to recent critical approaches to the author. Topics covered include Blake and Gender... Læs mere
This collection provides a thorough introduction to and critical commentary on recent scholarship on the Reformation.
In the Napoleonic period warfare ceased to be a matter for armies alone, but also became an affair of the people. In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outraged peasants and townsfolk rose against the French armies and fell upon them without mercy.
The Thirty Years War - the first great pan-European war, and until the twentieth century the most terrible - ravaged Germany, but myth, propaganda and... Læs mere
This comprehensive and discriminating account of Tolkien's work has been revised and expanded, to take account both of recent developments in scholarship, and of the recent films directed by Peter Jackson.
The author reveals the extent of the Army's responsibility for bringing the Nazi regime to power, for tolerating the infamies of that regime once it had attained power, and for not taking the measures - at a time when only the Army could have taken them - to remove it from power.
Written by both practitioners and scholars, this significant and timely collection explores the sites of contemporary performance, and the notion of place. The volume examines how... Læs mere