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Argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates. -- .

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From dramatic reflections on the Blitz to insightful examinations of post-war conditions, Jennings' startling documentary films redefined the genre. The book carefully examines and explains the central components of Jennings most significant films, and considers the relevance of his filmmaking to British cinema and contemporary experience.

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Written in a conversational form, this book provides an accessible and entertaining primer to those aspiring to make a new state.

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Drawing on a wide rage of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crises in early modern England. -- .

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This book examines how Armenia and Armenians were portrayed in Britain at a decisive moment in modern history, when diplomats, scholars and humanitarians engaged with the past, present and future of Armenia. -- .

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This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the early twentieth century by focussing on the heretofore understudied concept of imperial citizenship. -- .

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This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories. It focuses on processes of colonial taxation and, primarily, national welfare to examine the ways in which todays global inequalities are the result of such connected histories.

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Popular culture is a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when it reflected the nationalist ideologies current throughout Europe. When they were being entertained or educated the British basked in their imperial glory and developed a notion of their own superiority.

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China and Third World societies cannot 'catch up'. Much of the worlds work has moved to the poor countries, yet through dominating critical aspects of labour process a few rich, imperialist countries monopolise the benefits. China and the Third World will remain poor and the vast global social divide is under the present system permanent.

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A new interpretation of the creative work of well known British imperialists of the late nineteenth and early 20th century, exploring their links with the revolutionary psychological theories of Freud. -- .

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A new interpretation of the creative work of well known British imperialists of the late nineteenth and early 20th century, exploring their links with the revolutionary psychological theories of Freud. -- .

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A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. Poets, practitioners, academics and theorists offer an illuminating range of perspectives for specialists and the general reader. -- .

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This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood through its buildings, spaces, and infrastructure. It considers internal colonisation and its infrastructures of order and suppression, alongside wider relationships between architecture, imperialism, and cultural identity.

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Brings together a range of sociologists and economists to study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process -- .

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This book says farewell to Zygmunt Bauman by reflecting on the authors thirty-year collaboration with him. Using his own archives and published work, Peter Beilharz establishes the nature of their friendship and the development of their respective intellectual projects on modernity, the postmodern and the present crisis.

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Examines the relationship between women and fiction in post-war Italy. The anthology presents 13 stories, offering a range of style indicative of the diversity of writing by women. The Italian texts are supported by critical notes in English and an extensive vocabulary.

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The first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio system after the Second World War, J. Lee Thompson -- .

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A comprehensive account of the work of J.G. Ballard, one of the most important fiction writers of the past forty years. Traces the development of his career, and the significant contribution he has made to contemporary writing. -- .

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The first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language.

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This is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epstein's fiction and documentary films, film theory, and writings on poetry and homosexuality. The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory of Epstein and restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein. -- .

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A collection of documents on the historical figure Joan of Arc, some of which published in modern English for the first time, and contextualised by an extended intorduction and and useful contextualising passages -- .

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A comprehensive analysis of Whedon's role in shaping the twenty-first-century TV landscape, featuring unique access to drafts of scripts and other source material. The book offers both detailed assessments of individual episodes and overarching histories of production. An essential and timely contribution to TV scholarship. -- .

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Presents a highly original and detailed investigation into the nature of American visual, musical and cultural influences on British youth between 1945 and 1960. It looks at the spread of youth culture, juke boxes, coffee and milk bars, dress styles and rock n roll and the context of these new cultural influences in design, music and lifestyle.