This illustrated volume is a comprehensive guide to the most important church and chapel buildings in Wales, from the early middle ages to the present. The introduction provides a clear overview, base
Praised by Queen Victoria as the 'greatest man this country has ever produced', the Duke of Wellington had an unmatched career as soldier, politician and statesman. A frail child, overshadowed by his
Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology shaping our world today. It dictates the policies of governments, and shapes the actions of key institutions such as the WTO, IMF, World Bank and European Centra
The detective genre, or novela negra, is one of Spain’s most popular types of fiction: these books, many written by female writers, have obtained best-selling status and been translated into multiple
Be it the local fleapit or the more opulent town center "super-cinemas," movie venues are often remembered as vividly as the films themselves. This commentary examines the social implications of cinem
The Settlements of Northwest Wales documents the long-term processes of social change and settlement practices in late prehistoric and early medieval Wales. It examines the settlement archaeology of n
Raymond Williams (1921–88) was a Welsh, working-class academic writer and novelist, influential in both the creation of cultural studies as an academic subject and in his attempts to democratize acces
R. S. Thomas (1913–2000) was a Welsh poet and an Anglican clergyman whose ironic anti-pastorals, poems of filial resentment, bold charting of the new cosmos, and dialogues with Wallace Stevens and Sor
Do the structures of the world economy invariably work against the interests of the Third World? What is the impact of industrialisation? How does it affect people and their livelihoods, gender relati
Babylon and Beyond provides the first clear and accessible guide to the economics of anti-capitalism. Anti-capitalism is a diverse movement: critics accuse it of knowing what it is against, but not kn
The forces that shape our history are always contentious. Seen through the popularity of authors from Jared Diamond to Eric Hobsbawm, people’s fascination with what drives the actions of the human rac
Analysing for Authorship is the first book to provide a clear and comprehensive guide to cusum technique, a scientific method for the attribution of utterance.Attributing authorship is often a matter
Even as the world has struggled to deal with ever-more-threatening environmental problems, Green parties around the world have made great political strides in the past four decades. Green parties have
Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain examines the work of Spain’s three major playwrights of the baroque era, Calderon de la Barca, Lope de Vega, and Tirso Molina, in the context of contemporary Spa
This classic study of the druids, one of the three intellectual classes of the early Celtic peoples, was first published by the University of Wales Press in 1966. The druids were the most enlightened
Drawing upon both Welsh- and English-language materials, Welsh Gothic explores the diverse ways in which Wales has been represented in Gothic literature from the late eighteenth century to the present
Postcolonialism Revisited examines the ways in which postcolonial theory may be usefully adopted and adapted in order to provide an illuminating reading of Welsh writing in English, and how the Anglop
Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? InQueer Lovers and Hateful Others, Jin Haritaworn argues that que
Food sovereignty—or the right of a people to operate and control their own food and agricultural systems—has all but disappeared throughout much of the world, usurped by multinational corporations eng
