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Unearths new evidence to provide a richer understanding of the life of the Labour minister Ellen Wilkinson -- .

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This interdisciplinary book provides a timely analysis of the practical effects and potential limitations of New Labour rhetoric in the area of social justice and will be essentuial reading for anyone with hopes for the development of a more generous and inclusive vision of social justice for the future. -- .

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This book defends the Marxist theory of history through, first, a critique of its empiricist and postmodern critics, second, a practical demonstration of the power of Marxist historical writings, and, third, a survey of the powerful and influential methodological debates between Marxists. -- .

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Representing Africa examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the region. -- .

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A critical reappraisal of one of the most significant filmmakers of the post-war era, 'Beatles' director, Richard Lester. -- .

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Robert Southwell's poetic view of Spenser's, Signey's and Shakespeare's England is a cold one. This book close reads and contextualises his lighter lyric poetry and its connections to English recusant culture from the music of Willian Bryd to the coded embroideries of Mary Queen of Scots. -- .

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Considers how national fantasy has been constructed through a wide range of narratives that have described rocks and landscape not merely as inert substances but moving living beings. -- .

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This fascinating book examines how and why Americans built an informal trading empire and why the British Empire needed to be removed before a Pax Americana could be built. It offers a systematic explanation for the rise of this super empire, and explains in detail how it is governed. -- .

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Steve Sohmer's book solves literally dozens of Shakespeare's riddles which have never been solved before. Scholars, editors of the plays, and theatre enthusiasts will find much in these pages to inform, surprise and delight them. -- .

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Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works and their relationship to their political and cultural context. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories. -- .

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Shaping a global women's agenda documents the crucial and central role of women's international organisations played at the League of Nations and at the United Nations as the NGOs interjected concerns for women's and human rights into the global governance system. -- .

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This is the first comprehensive social history of Ireland in the years between the Famine and independence/partition (1850-1922) to appear in a quarter-century, Lively and colourful, it offers new perspectives on work, education, emigration, marriage, health, institutions, extreme poverty, housing and diet. -- .

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Social movements and Ireland is an innovative new text which aims to provide a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective action in Irish society. -- .

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The book examines the power of nationalism to solder nation-states back together rather than break them apart. In this innovative, cross-continental comparison of nation-building in Germany and Vietnam, the focus is on their shared experience of division, communism and regional integration. -- .

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Looks at the diversities of South Asian social History, focusing on Orissa. Examines the environment; health and medicine; conversion (in Hinduism); popular movements; social history of princely states; connections between the marginal social groups and nationalism; decolonisation; patriarchy; and gender-related violence. -- .

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The first anthology of primary material interdisciplinary study of the history of the South Asian presence in Britain over the period 1870-1950, it selects a wide range of official and non-official archival sources. and identifies four key areas of South Asian impact - minority rights, war, culture and reception, and representation. -- .

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This book brings together five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guediguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. It explores their unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. -- .

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Spacing Ireland explores questions of 'space' and 'place' to understand the nature of major social, cultural and economic change in contemporary Ireland.The authors explore the intersections between everyday life and global exchanges through the contexts of the 'stuff' of contemporary everyday encounters -- .

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Spilling the Beans shows how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century anxieties about women's consumption and production are manifest in novelists' and novels' accounts of what heroines, readers and writers do with food. -- .

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Assesses the security threat and political challenges offered by dissident Irish republicanism to the Northern Irish peace process. -- .

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A critical consideration of the apology in politics -- .

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Examines the construction of ethnic communities, and of multicultural policy, in post-war England. It explores how Irish and Afro-Caribbean immigrants responded to their representation as alien races by turning to history. -- .