Macmillan imprint: 15028 books
The Foundations of Anti-Apartheid
Liberal Humanitarians and Transnational Activists in Britain and the United States, c.1919-64
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Anti-apartheid was one of the most significant international causes of the late twentieth century. The book provides the first detailed history of the emergence of anti-apartheid activism in Britain and the USA, tracing the network of individuals and groups who shaped the moral and political character of the movement.
by A. Biney
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Inspired by Gandhi's non-violent campaign of civil disobedience to achieve political ends, Kwame Nkrumah led present-day Ghana to independence. This analysis of his political, social and economic thought centres on his own writings, and re-examines his life and thought by focusing on the political discourse and controversies surrounding him.
by Ruth Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
To save a child, they would sacrifice everything . . . Comfortably settled into his expatriate life in post-war Britain, Headmaster Theodore's secrets are set to remain deeply buried. Until she breezes in. Tia Bellamy: vivacious, intriguing, a nuisance. Tia cuts through his reserve and, for the first...
Social Theory of Fear
Terror, Torture, and Death in a Post-Capitalist World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion.
Jewish Representation in British Literature 1780-1840
After Shylock
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying treatments of stereotypical Jewish figures.
by J. Barry
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.
Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine
'An Unprecedented Phenomenon'
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackwood's wide-ranging contributions on some of the most topical issues in Romantic studies, including celebrity, British versus Scottish nationalism, and the rise of terror and detective fiction.
Poetry and Popular Protest
Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This book provides provocative information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: 'Peterloo', a peaceful protest that became a massacre; 'Cato Street', a government scripted rebellion; and the 'Queen Caroline Controversy', when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown.
The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake
Appropriation and Cultural Politics in Ireland, 1867-1922
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examining appropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics informed the critical paradigms that mediated the reading of Shakespeare in Ireland for a generation.
by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In the ruthless pursuit of scientific fact, there is no candidate more formidable than Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Master Geek and National Living Treasure.
"There's no topic on which Dr Karl does not have an interestingly expressed opinion" The Weekly Review
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by Alan Bilton
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags expressing the unconscious wishes and fears of the modern age, in a way that foreshadows the concerns of our own celebrity-obsessed consumer culture.
Modernism and Nostalgia
Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new—the distinctly modern.
The Writer on Film
Screening Literary Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other trenchantly and anew – through acts of explicit configuration not adaptation.
Autobiography and Performance
Performing Selves
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Autobiography and Performance offers a comprehensive overview of the use of autobiography in performance. Examining the work of key practitioners, Heddon argues that autobiographical performancesact as sites of resistance and intervention and uncovers the political potentials and limits that accompany the use of the personal in performance