ISBN: 9781784993559
Explores the major changes in our use of and attitude to time over three centuries. Asks why the 1960s and 1970s expectation that leisure time would increase has failed to come about
ISBN: 9780719071874
This book, now available in paperback, is the result of national research conducted amongst England's directly elected mayors and the councillors that serve alongside them. It is the first such...
ISBN: 9780719082269
A study of the Bond phenomenon and its relation to the rise of playboy culture from the 1960s onwards. --.
ISBN: 9780719088957
This collection of essays takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of...
ISBN: 9781526125231
What is the point of poetry?-for historians? The answer lies in a new history of History-of history-writing, historical thinking and `history-in-society', all seen through the prism of W....
ISBN: 9781784993917
A thoroughly researched and clearly written account of the French military from the Revolution to the Restoration, exploring the evolving idea of merit --.
ISBN: 9780719079542
The book is a treatment of the British colony in Egypt from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, revealing deep-seated cultural and economic links, while also considering how...
ISBN: 9781526127259
This book examines the relationship between the Capetian monarchs of France and the Crusades, and considers the challenge to political authority that confronted them following their failure to join...
ISBN: 9780719057298
An introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on the subject of power within social and political theory. Contains extracts from such leading contemporary thinkers as Giddens,...
ISBN: 9781526127273
The central theme of the book is that: the British elite has lost control and their failings have an increasingly devastating effect on society and the wider public. This book explains all this...
ISBN: 9781526110244
This book explores identity as contingent, fragmented and dynamic across a range of global sites and approaches that deal with citizenship, security, migration, subjectivity, memory, exclusion and...
ISBN: 9780719097249
Examines the oratory and rhetoric of twelve key figures from Conservative Party politics
ISBN: 9781526105233
Leading scholar of citizenship and migration Rainer Bauboeck proposes a theory of inclusion for democratic societies. Five prominent interlocutors comment on this theory. --.
ISBN: 9780719086083
This book is the first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. The pivotal importance of the Plantation to the shared histories of Ireland and Britain would be difficult to...
ISBN: 9780719068850
Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender...
ISBN: 9780719097843
This book investigates the role of 'texts' - including books, maps, stones and caskets - in the conveyance and transformation of knowledge throughout the Middle Ages. It contains original...
ISBN: 9781784991159
The first full length account of the 1979 'winter of discontent'
ISBN: 9780719096631
The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. It examines the factors which informed the cult and looks in detail...
ISBN: 9781526127082
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...
ISBN: 9780719096785
This ground-breaking biography of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1669-1739) provides a detailed and rare portrait of an early eighteenth century Irish bishop and witchcraft theorist. Drawing upon a...