The eighteenth century witnessed the rapid expansion of social, political, religious and literary networks in Great Britain. Increased availability of and access to print combined with the ease with w
The study of crime and violence in all its multifarious forms remains one of the most productive areas of enquiry for Irish historians. Considered an inordinately violent and unruly society by many co
This book is the first comprehensive history of medical student culture and medical education in Ireland from the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1950s. Utilising a variety of rich sources,
Similar in theme and method to the first and second volumes, Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, third volume of the series Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, illuminates how an un
This book examines memoir-writing by many of the key political actors in the Northern Irish Troubles (19691998), and argues that memoir has been a neglected dimension of the study of the legacies of t
In Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France Knox turns the tables France's rhetoric of 'internal otherness', asking her reader not to spot those deemed France's others but rather to deconstruc
This collection of essays considers the ways and extent of Haiti's 'exceptionalisation' its perception in multiple arenas as definitively unique with respect not only to the countries of the North Atl
The contemporary perspectives - fiction, first-hand accounts, reportage and photographs - found in the pages of this collection give a unique insight into the experiences and suffering of those affect
A pioneering, interdisciplinary study of how transnational novelists and critics use music as a critical device to structure narrative and to model ethical relations.
This is the first part of a two-volume textbook offering the basis for a single semester undergraduate-level university course on environmental politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. It offers a
This is the first part of a two-volume textbook offering the basis for a single semester undergraduate-level university course on environmental politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. It offers a
Argentina’s Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, spread, and use of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. Based on extensive st
Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present-day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually conside
Literary and sociological studies have long been fascinated by the seemingly innocuous substance of sugar, not least because of its direct link with the histories of slavery in the New World. Unlike p
During the 1919 port riots—in Glasgow, London, Liverpool, and Cardiff, among other cities—crowds of working-class whites targeted black workers, their families, their businesses, and their property. T
Interdisciplinary Measures makes the case for a cross-disciplinary, but literature-centred, approach to postcolonial studies. Despite the anxieties that interdisciplinarity brings with it, a combinati
Where now for postcolonial studies? That is the central question in this new volume from one of the field’s most original thinkers. Not so long ago, the driving force behind postcolonial criticism was
The theatrum mundi metaphor was well-known in the Golden Age, and was often employed, notably by Calderon in his religious theatre. However, little account has been given of the everyday exploitation
In a careful and well-written analysis, Vogele focuses attention on the question of when towns ceased to be relatively unhealthy compared with rural areas, with useful discussions of disease categorie
Louise Bourgeois was midwife to Maria of Medici, Queen of France, from 1601 to 1609, and the first woman in modern times to write about what she calls her "art". This book gives an account of her life
