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This book is an interdisciplinary intervention into the history of interiors and collections, museology, archaeology, architectural history, art, and design history, and demonstrates a range of innovative methods and approaches, useful to historians, curators, and custodians of historical sites, spaces and objects.

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This book presents a compelling exploration of how business schools can tackle global challenges such as economic disparities, AI and climate change through essays by leading academics and business leaders looking at the future of management, policy, and economic growth.

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This book is the definitive study of how skin was debated, understood and misunderstood in Europe between 1500 and 1700. It is based on deep historical research and includes hundreds of colour images from the period.

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Republican passions provides an innovative perspective on the founding of the French Third Republic. Based on the archives of Leon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, Deputy and Life Senator, it demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the republican movement during the Second Empire and early Third Republic.

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Resistance and its discontents in South Asian women's fiction examines the literary representation of a fascinating range of resistances enacted in response to various forms of oppression, and addresses the expectations, contradictions, anxieties and even inaction that resistance can generate, particularly for women.

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This book compares how Russia and China maneuvered nationalism through communist revolutions and explains why they followed different paths in reorganizing empires.

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A wide ranging discussion of emotions in the key historically oriented prose genres of medieval Iceland, explored through a range of case studies.

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This book-length study of Sally Wainwright's television, including analysis of globally recognised television series such as Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, and Gentleman Jack, considers Wainwright's work in terms of genre, melodrama and through the concept of emotion.

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A cultural history of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in film and television from early cinema to the present.

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Re-evaluates the mechanics and decline of serfdom in medieval England, casting new light on the nature of its economy and society, and the impact of the Black Death.

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This book explores Shakespeare's presence in the American cultural imaginary at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It traces how his texts are disseminated and reassembled in contemporary TV shows such as The Wire, Deadwood, Westworld, House of Cards and The Americans.

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The book examines the distinction between revision and rewriting in Early New English literature, analysing over 50 poems and plays from the sixteenth to seventeenth century. Focusing on A Lover's Complaint, Double Falsehood, and adaptations of Richard II and The Duchess of Malfi, it explores how texts evolved through revision and reinterpretation.

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Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work music. She played and sang draws on the music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the influences that shaped her literary masterpieces.

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This volume presents studies of the mobilisation of practices for health and spiritual well-being in various regions and times across Asia. The chapters use a common structure to situate these practices within their regions and times, demonstrating how they circulated across religious, medical and scientific domains.

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Social democracy and urban politicsdelves into the changing relationship between social democratic, radical left and green parties within the political space of European cities, reflecting upon the formation and dilemmas of a broader progressive alliance.

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Centring on a 1927 libel trial, this book tells the story of the cosmopolitan London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 1920s and 1930s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today.

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This book maps the ruptures and mutations that are currently reshaping the political economy of the global South and the wider world-system. Analysing political and economic dynamics across Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, it proposes a novel reading of durable crisis, hegemonic projects, and possibilities for popular resistance.

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This book focuses on alternative forms of knowledge production and speculation in nineteenth century US-American society, and highlights the strategies that minoritarian subjects developed to understand and navigate these complex cultures of knowledge and capital.

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An exploration of the historical intersections of the mining industry, Methodist evangelical Christianity, civilisational education, and the modern metaphysics of race. Contributing to theories of race and racism by insisting on the enduring role of religious biopolitics and Christianising education, whilst expanding on the 'geology of race'.

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This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendt's classic account of statelessness in her Origins of Totalitarianism.

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This book examines the 1980 national steelworkers strike in Britain, analysing its origins and development. Using oral histories, the book explores the longer-term impacts the strike had on those most actively involved and asserts its significance as a key turning point in the deindustrialisation processes that marked Britain in the 1980s.

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This book explores how medieval and early modern texts use material objects to negotiate temporal otherness. From marvellous artefacts to everyday items, it reveals objects as agents of change, bridging human and material, nature and culture, in ways that anticipate Latour's ideas.

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This book covers the intellectual and political life of Tadeusz Kowalik within the context of modern Polish history. Kowalik was part of a group of left-wing intellectuals, the Polish School; he participated in events such as the shipyard strikes in 1980 before becoming a vehement opponent of Poland's neoliberal transformation to capitalism.