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What does the 'Beat' in 'Beatles' really mean Why did Bob Dylan want to visit Jack Kerouac's grave with Allen Ginsberg How does reading Gary Snyder help us understand the lyrics of Jim Morrison This book provides the answers. -- .

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this book offers a practical and reader-friendly introduction to the artistic and intellectual revolution of the early twentieth century. It combines an emphasis on how to read individual modernist artefacts with a wide-ranging survey of this diverse and ground-breaking movement, from literature to architecture, politics to the visual arts.

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Offers a fresh and original approach to the masculinities, subjectivities and emotions of working-class young men, and makes a distinctive contribution to the history of leisure and interwar youth. -- .

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This book is the first, sustained close reading of Russian-language online media accounts of the 2004 Beslan school siege, now seen as a vital turning point in Russia's approach to terrorism and in the Putin/Medvedev presidencies. -- .

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Beyond Representation poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been signs of 'progress'/'progressiveness' in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories, within television drama in Britain and the US. -- .

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Contains full texts of rare botanical poems by eighteenth-century women. This title engages with popular and provoking debates on sexuality, as women's study of the modern sexual system of botany was perceived to threaten female modesty.

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Challenging standard economic models, this book shows how farmers tend to use cognitive shortcuts and how professional pride frequently trumps profit considerations when farmers make decisions about fertilizers and other types of decisions. -- .

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Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity. This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed people's eating habits focuses on the complex interactions between bodies, ritual and identity. -- .

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A radical new interpretation of Britain's Chief Rabbis from Nathan Adler to Immanuel Jakobovits, and the impact they had on Anglo-Jewry. -- .

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This book investigates the UKs experience as a junior partner in the only Cold war conflict where some of the main protagonists confronted each other on the battlefield. The author assesses the strains within the Special Relationship between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes of British influence.

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This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Written in accessible prose, it offers original new readings of works, among others by Salman Rushie, V. S. Naipaul, Hanif Kureishi, Ravinder Randhawa, Atima Srivastava, Monica Ali and Meera Syal. -- .

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British Films of the 1970s offers highly detailed and insightful critical analysis of a range of individual films of the period. This analysis draws upon an innovative range of critical methodologies which place the film texts within a rich variety of historical contexts. -- .

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This book provides a detailed analysis of the aims, character and trajectory of the ideology of liberal internationalism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. The book has a genuinely interdisciplinary appeal and is relevant to students of International Relations, British history and international law. -- .

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An analysis of the Military Service Tribunals which considered applications for exemption from men during the First World War, this book illuminates a previously under-researched area of British military and social history. -- .

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The anti-marketeers provides the most comprehensive examination to date of the forces that aligned against Britain's first attempt to join Europe, 1961-63, and analyses the dominant role played by constructions of national identity in shaping the arguments forwarded by these early Eurosceptics. -- .

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This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past. -- .

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The first full-length monograph in English devoted to one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors in contemporary cinema -- .

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This book comparitively explores the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- .

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Explores historically the problematic relationship between Catholics and the police in Northern Ireland. Using strong, empirical evidence from the frank, personal stories of Catholic police officers the study questions whether the PSNI is likely to succeed where the RUC failed in delivering policing by consent in a deeply divided society.

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Explores the relationship between public administration and social justice in Ireland -- .

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, prominent English child rescuers, reconstituted the vulnerable body of the child at risk as central to the survival of nation, race and empire. The book explains how the project contributed to the neglect and abuse disclosed in recent enquiries into the past treatment of children in out-of-home care.

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Critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on the EU human rights policy -- .

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This book explores the contribution of different Christian traditions to the waves of democratization that have swept various parts of the world in recent decades. Written in an accessible style, it will appeal to students of politics, sociology and religion, and prove useful on a range of advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

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This book offers a unique and compelling study of the worldviews and factors that promoted, or indeed opposed, antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War. -- .