(Hardback)

This ground-breaking book rewrites trans history, presenting the stories of thirty extraordinary trans people who lived between 1850 and 1950. Featuring kids, activists, workers and athletes, it reveals the reality of trans lives in an era before the concept of gender became an everyday term.

(Paperback)

A literary critical book which is a toolkit for (peaceful) concerted activism on behalf of environment and issues of human rights and justice.

(Hardback)

This book explores how Canadians and Canadian readers have fashioned their self-image as an antislavery haven, showing a more complicated picture of Canada as a slaveholding, exploitative and racist place.

(Hardback)

This work explores the censorship of film at local level and charts the chronological development of local film censorship systems, mechanisms and apparatus. Using archival material from a range of different locations across the UK, a more nuanced and complex picture of local film censorship activity is drawn.

(Hardback)

This book explores how events within the Gaelic-speaking world of Ireland and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland shaped the affairs of the wider Irish and British Isles during the later medieval and early modern periods.

(Paperback)

Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war moves beyond discussions of hybrid warfare to offer a broad account of contemporary Russian thinking on war. Exploring key concepts in Russian military thinking, it contributes to the debate about Russias role in international affairs and the challenge the country poses to the international order.

(Hardback)

Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war moves beyond discussions of hybrid warfare to offer a broad account of contemporary Russian thinking on war. Exploring key concepts in Russian military thinking, it contributes to the debate about Russias role in international affairs and the challenge the country poses to the international order.

(Hardback)

Bordering social reproduction explores how migrants subjected to policies that seek to deny them the means of life endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. It develops innovative theorisations of welfare bordering and advances the novel concept of weathering to comprehend mother's and children's life-making practices under duress.

(Hardback)

Britain's 'Mr X' explores the long and influential career of the British diplomat Sir Frank Roberts, including his close collaboration with the renowned American diplomat, George F. Kennan (the cryptonymous author 'X' of an influential 1947 article) at the dawn of the Cold War.

(Hardback)

This book explores the role medical doctors played in the colonial counterinsurgency campaigns in British Kenya (1952-1960) and French Algeria (1954-1962) in the final years of empire. It not only examines how these medical professionals became embroiled in the conflict, but also how they used their knowledge to further the interests of the state.

(Paperback)

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library's extensive special collections.

(Paperback)

Carbon colonialism shows how the impact of climate change, including the slow-burn disasters of droughts and floods, is traded out by wealthier countries and imported by less wealthy ones as the price of economic growth.

(Paperback)

Taking its inspiration from the spatial turn in the humanities, this volume examines conceptual art's diverse forms of mapping between the 1960s and the 1990s to critically engage with space and spatiality.

(Hardback)

China as context challenges the marginalization of Chinese-grounded ideas in academia, arguing that neglecting China distorts our understanding of global complexities. Through diverse ethnographic perspectives, this volume repositions China as a key agent in knowledge production, urging a holistic, post-global approach to the social sciences amid shifting global dynamics.

(Hardback)

Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to theories and practices that reside within the fertile zone where anthropology and filmmaking intersect.

(Paperback)

Clickbait capitalism engages the contemporary digital economy as a site of psychological capture and release. Drawing on psychoanalysis and political economy, the book provides vital new insights into the politics of desire associated with social media, dating apps, cryptocurrencies, and meme stocks.

(Paperback)

This book reconceptualises Europeanisation and studies how the EU Enlargement has shaped LGBT politics in Serbia. Questioning our ability to reduce LGBT liberation to rights and policies, the book moves beyond legal and institutional change to consider the political consequences the Europeanisation of LGBT rights has for people's lived realities.

(Paperback)

What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses This book provides answers to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.

(Hardback)

What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses This book provides answers to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.

(Paperback)

Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947.

(Hardback)

A fascinating legal scandal that started in Senegal in 1890 with the murder of a colonial administrator and the illegal executions of his killer and two other alleged accomplices. The book follows the struggle of one of their widows' for justice against the powerful colonial administration which eventually reached the French press and parliament.

(Hardback)

Conservatism, Christian Democracy, and the Dynamics of Transformation compares the centre-right political traditions of Britain, the Nordic countries, France, West Germany, and Austria and looks for evidence of political cooperation and influence across borders during the period 1945-91.

(Hardback)

This book examines the relationship of imperialism and ethnonationalism. Through a case study of colonial Burma, it finds that British imperialists amplified ethnonationalism to protect their interests after decolonisation. This preference helped Burmese ethnonationalists to seize power in the post-colony, to the detriment of the country's people.

(Hardback)

An anthology of essays devoted to Slavic horror fiction assesses current trends in East/Central European horror media, with focus on the mid-20th century to the present, and in particular the post-Soviet period.