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Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician across a range of political movements and wider British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act of 1867. Encompassing the parliamentary reform movements of Francis Burdett, Henry Hunt and the Chartists, Daniel O'Connell's campaigns for Catholic Emancipation and Repeal of the Union, the transatlantic Anti-Slavery movement and the Anti-Corn ...

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid, first staged by the King's Men in 1615, is a fascinating exploration of the performativity of gender and the transformative power of human desire. Based on a Spanish Golden Age comedia, the play is a provocative take on the construction of gender identity in its unusual retelling of the lives of two transgender characters. The play dramatises the story of two siblings, Clar...

Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline dramatists. The play showcases strong female characters who excel at rebuking the outlandish courtship of various suitors. Shirley's comic setting, London's Hyde Park, offers ample opportunity for witty dialogue and sport - including foot and horse races - across three love plots. This is the first critical edition of the pl...

The Carolingian period (c. 750-900) has traditionally been described as one of 'reform' or 'renaissance', where cultural and intellectual changes were imposed from above in a programme of correctio. This view leans heavily on prescriptive texts issued by kings and their entourages, foregrounding royal initiative and the cultural products of a small intellectual elite. However, attention to understudied texts and manuscripts of the period revea...

Riddles at work assembles multiple scholarly voices to explore the vibrant, poetic riddle tradition of early medieval England and its neighbours. The chapters present a wide range of traditional and experimental methodologies. They treat the riddles both as individual poems and as parts of a tradition, but, most importantly, they address Latin and Old English riddles side-by-side, bringing together texts that originally developed in conversati...

A timely historical account cataloguing a rich collection of the author's empirical research, the book evinces continuity in polarisation among Northern Irish communities online. Showing how the use of social media adds further complexity to community relations, Reilly meticulously dispels earlier techno-optimism while further contextualising the algorithmic power of social media.'>'A must read for scholars and students seeking to understand t...

This book examines key moments in which collective and state violence invigorated racialized social boundaries around Mexican and African Americans in the United States, and in which they violently contested them. Bringing anti-Mexican violence into a common analytical framework with anti-black violence, A savage song examines several focal points in this oft-ignored history, including the 1915 rebellion of ethnic Mexicans in South Texas, and ...

The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the ground-breaking role played by Germanophone women artists working in surrealist traditions in responding to the traumatic events and legacies of the Second World War. Analysing works in a variety of media by leading artists and writers, the book redefines the post-war trajectories of surrealism and recalibrates critical understandings of the movement's relations to historical trauma...

With a focus on the distinct but related concepts of translation and decolonisation, this book provides a novel approach to the study of diaspora. Theoretically embedded, it offers a rich empirical analysis of the Kurdish diaspora in Europe.'>'This book decisively shifts the focus from what diasporas are to what they do. While primarily focusing on the case of the Kurds, the author demonstrates how diasporas create new identities and shape the...

Degrowth is a multi-faceted phenomenon. As a research field, social movement and political project, it brings together a range of practices including alternative forms of living and initiatives of various kinds in civil society, business and the state. Yet, no comprehensive theory of degrowth transformations has so far been developed. Deep transformations fills this gap. This timely and accessible book unfolds a holistic theory of degrowth tra...

Herminie and Fanny Pereire were remarkable women of the French Jewish elite. Emerging from a Sephardic family that adapted early to acculturation with French society, they played essential but often unremarked roles in the lives and spectacular businesses of their husbands, Emile and Isaac Pereire, who were prominent bankers, financiers and industrialists in nineteenth-century France. Family provided the solid foundation on which the Pereire b...

A range of European filmmakers in the 1970s sought ways of making commercially minded films that explored some of the key political questions of the 1970s. This HOME film dossier revisits them in short, accessible pieces that will inspire those who are new to them to seek them out, and those who remember have seen them before to rush to see them again. With street-fighting, political conspiracies and violent acts of terror taking place across ...

This groundbreaking book explores key methods for investigating emotions in medieval literary texts, drawing on psychological theory, research in the history of emotions and close critical reading to uncover the emotional repertoire in play in English literary culture between 1200-1500. The book comprehensively illuminates medieval philosophical and physiological theorisations of emotion, closely bound up with cognitive processes. It investiga...

European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism is a multidisciplinary collection of scholarly studies which rethink European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post-)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions empirically focus on such various cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cottbus, Genoa, Hamburg, Madrid, Mitrovica, Naples, Paris, Sheffield, and Thessaloniki, engaging multiple combinations o...

Knowing COVID-19 shows how COVID-19 moved from being a mysterious and frightening novel infectious disease to something that was subject to an enormous amount of knowledge production. This volume focuses specifically on the role of humanities research within this vast epistemological engine. Across eight empirical chapters, the volumes traces the role of researchers in the humanities as they brought their expertise to bear on vital unknown que...

An empire of many cultures explores how Bahá'ís in England and Palestine, Muslim missionaries from India based in Woking, and Jews in England on both sides of the Zionist debate understood interactions with the British state and larger imperial culture prior to and during World War I. With the outbreak of the war and British expansion into the Middle East, certain Bahá'í, Muslim, and Jewish leaders found it necessary to form new relationships ...

This volume is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on how Reformed theology and ecclesiology related to conformity to the Church of England, one of the most consequential issues in the period between the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559 and the Hanoverian Succession in 1714. Stimulated by recent scholarship on England's 'long Reformation', this volume provides fresh perspectives on the multifaceted legacy of Reformed Protestanti...

This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. In the mid twentieth-century, nursing was nominally a profession but with poor pay and harsh discipline. It was unpopular with British women, and in the years preceding the Second World War, hospitals in Britain suffered chronic nurse staffing crises. Despite the opportunities war-work offered women, the highly gendered world of mid-twentieth cen...

Intimacy and injury maps the travels of the global #MeToo movement in India and South Africa. Both countries have shared the infamy of being labelled the world's 'rape capitals', with high levels of everyday gender-based and sexual violence. At the same time, both boast long histories of resisting such violence and its location in wider cultures of patriarchy, settler colonialism and class and caste privilege. Voices and experiences from the g...

Agents of European overseas empires overhauls our understanding of early modern European imperial history and the extent of the participation of early modern polities in the conduct of European overseas trade and colonisation. Contributions from historians based in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States focus on the 'private' interests that initiated the pursuit of overseas commercial and colonising interests during the ...