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Empire Ways
Aspects of British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The British Empire was an astonishingly complex and varied phenomenon, which should not be reduced to any of the simple generalisations or theories that are often taken to characterise it. 'Imperialism' took many forms, just one of which was formally governing – 'economic' and 'cultural' domination,...
Journalism in an Age of Terror
Covering and Uncovering the Secret State
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups have prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation permitting collection of communications data. This provides journalism with acute dilemmas. The media claims responsibility for holding power to account,...
Visualizing Feeling
Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Is late modern art 'anti-aesthetic'? What does it mean to label a piece of art 'affectless'? These traditional characterisations of 1960s and 1970s art are radically challenged in this subversive art history. By introducing feeling to the analysis of this period, Susan Best acknowledges the radical...
Passionate Being
Language, Singularity and Perseverance
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Written through both the first and second person singular, 'Passionate Being' takes its author and its reader on a journey that has them thinking of their experience of and belonging to language and the possibility of an instance of the world taking-place without prejudice and exclusion.
At...
by Richard Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
The French Revolution was a huge, brutal yet inspiring phenomenon that changed global political thinking and action, and its echoes resound even in the twenty-first century. It was an intensely complex mix of events, concepts and individuals and A New Dictionary is an invaluable aid to unravelling...
The Unseen Terror
The French Revolution in the Provinces
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2010
From the fall of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon, Paris was the stage for most of the greatest crises of the French Revolution. Indeed, for many historians, the Revolution was a distinctly Parisian phenomenon, restricted to the galleries of the Tuileries and the chambers of the Jacobin Club....
Badiou Reframed
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce, conceptualise and discover art. Badiou Reframed...
Destroying a Nation
The Civil War in Syria
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history. In this book, former Special...
The Victims Return
Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Stalin's Reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour...
Sport Italia
The Italian Love Affair with Sport
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
The Italian love affair with sport is passionate, voracious, all-consuming. It provides a backdrop and a narrative to almost every aspect of daily life in Italy and the distinctively pink-coloured newspaper 'La Gazzetta dello Sport' is devoured by over three million hungry readers every day.
Narrating...
Twenty-First Century Jihad
Law, Society and Military Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West. But, like other religious and political concepts, jihad has multiple resonances and associations, its meaning shifting over time and from place to place. Jihad has referred...
Sceptics of Islam
Revisionist Religion, Agnosticism and Disbelief in the Modern Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Arab debates about the critical relationship between religion and modernity began in the early nineteenth century. Such debates are now integral to the struggle for power between a variety of political groups and their opponents, and are vital to understanding the modern Middle East. This unique volume...
The New Sultan
Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The aborted coup in Turkey has fired up interest in a country which will play a critical geopolitical role in the wars of the Middle East. The spotlight will inevitably be on Erdogan – the powerful leader of the country - whose increasingly bizarre and authoritarian regime has increased tensions...
Churchill and Company
Allies and Rivals in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Winston Churchill, the great wartime leader and peacetime Prime Minister, is one of the dominating figures of the 20th century. In this stimulating and original book, David Dilks - the eminent historian of modern Britain and a leading Churchill scholar - provides a fascinating source of new discoveries...