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The Work of Avishai Ehrlich

Political Sociologist, Activist and Public Intellectual

Edited By: Nea Ehrlich, Lesley Marx, Nira Yuval-Davis

£44.99

This book is about Avishai Ehrlich’s life’s work in political sociology and his role as a public intellectual. Chapters include his articles, commentaries, and personal memories from distinguished academics, friends, and students who knew his influence well.

Let’s Talk About Sex

Histories of Sexuality in Australia from Federation to the Pill

By: Lisa Featherstone

£44.99

Uncovering the hidden desires and public fears of Australia from 1901 to 1961, this history reveals how sex became a battleground of crucial social, cultural, and political importance.

Ireland in Crisis?

Analyses and Proposed Solutions

Edited By: Seán Ó Nualláin

£44.99

These proceedings from the International Congress of Irish Studies explore the reinstatement of Irish identity in our present, vastly-changed political and cultural landscape.

British Culture and Society in the 1970s

The Lost Decade

Edited By: Laurel Forster, Sue Harper

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the revolutionary culture of the 1970s, a period of extraordinary social, sexual and political change. This interdisciplinary account offers an exciting interpretation of a momentous and colourful period in cultural history.

Greek Science in the Long Run

Essays on the Greek Scientific Tradition (4th c. BCE-17th c. CE)

Edited By: Paula Olmos

£44.99

Renowned experts reflect on the prominence of Greek scientific models. This collection of essays revisits how these traditions originated, were transmitted, and received within diverse socio-cultural contexts from the 4th c. BCE to the 17th c. CE.

Evangelization and Cultural Conflict in Colonial Mexico

Edited By: Robert H. Jackson

£44.99

The so-called “spiritual conquest” of Mexico was no easy victory. Native populations overtly and covertly resisted the imposition of Catholicism, incorporating the new faith on their own terms. These essays examine this centuries-long cultural war.

African Zion

Studies in Black Judaism

Edited By: Edith Bruder

£44.99

Forged in slavery, exile, and subjugation, some black African and American societies have adopted a Judaic identity. This book explores the historical mosaic of black Judaism, reshaping the standard accounts of their collective religious experience.

Barriers, Borders and Crossings in British Postcolonial Fiction

A Gender Perspective

By: Cecilia Rosa Acquarone

£44.99

A perceptive and innovative study of female versus male responses to postmodernity in British postcolonial fiction, highlighting the opposition between the tragic vision of male authors and the comic vision of women writers. An invaluable contribution.

Waterford’s Anglicans

Religion and Politics, 1819-1872

By: Eugene Broderick

£44.99

As Catholic democracy eroded the power of Waterford’s Church of Ireland community, they retreated into denominationalism. This study focuses on their controversial bishop, Robert Daly, a ‘Protestant Pope’ who strove to resist the Catholic Church's advances.

Challenging Change

Literary and Linguistic Responses

Edited By: Biljana Mišić Ilić, Vesna Lopičić

£44.99

Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.

The Materiality of Res Publica

How to Do Things with Publics

Edited By: Dominique Colas, Oleg Kharkhordin

£44.99

This richly illustrated volume re-examines res publica, focusing not on government, but on the res—the things and affairs that bring people together. It explores the central role of bridges in Venice and Novgorod and analyzes republican iconography.

Things That Liberate

An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer

Edited By: Alison Bartlett, Margaret Henderson

£44.99

This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women’s lives and shaped the feminist movement since 1970. Combining personal narrative and historical analysis, it documents the material culture of liberation, from overalls to kombis.

Undoing Plessy

Charles Hamilton Houston, Race, Labor, and the Law, 1895-1950

By: Gordon P. Andrews

£44.99

Undoing Plessy explores the life of Charles Hamilton Houston, a “social engineer” who used the law to dismantle racial barriers. Houston understood the right to work was necessary for true freedom and built a strategy to win civil rights in the pre-Brown era.

Women’s Writing in Western Europe

Gender, Generation and Legacy

Edited By: Adalgisa Giorgio, Julia Waters

£44.99

The first study to investigate the legacy of a pioneering generation of women writers for contemporary authors across Western Europe. These studies uncover a complex web of intertextual links, offering new paradigms to think and read with.

Pursuing Eudaimonia

Re-appropriating the Greek Philosophical Foundations of the Christian Apophatic Tradition

By: John Matthews

£44.99

This book recovers an ancient, ‘negative’ reason as a spiritual way of life. By investigating the Christian apophatic tradition and its philosophical heritage, it offers a path to rediscovering the wellsprings of human passion, desire and happiness.

Coming Home? Vol. 1

Conflict and Return Migration in the Aftermath of Europe’s Twentieth-Century Civil Wars

Edited By: Sharif Gemie

£44.99

Forced displacement creates conflict. This book explores the complex link between return migration and the compelling but often chimerical search for home. Scholars examine tensions between nation-states and migrants in 20th and 21st century Europe and North Africa.

Political Ideology in Ireland

From the Enlightenment to the Present

Edited By: Olivier Coquelin, Patrick Galliou, Thierry Robin

£44.99

This collection of essays by leading experts interrogates history to understand Ireland's unique political and ideological complexity. Exploring diverse persuasions from the Enlightenment to the present, it sheds light on the building of a modern nation.

This collection of essays by leading experts interrogates history to understand Ireland’s unique political and ideological complexity. Exploring diverse persuasions from the Enlightenment to the present, it sheds light on the building of a modern nation.

The Impact of World War One on Limerick

By: Tadhg Moloney

£44.99

This book examines World War One's impact on Limerick, where initial support for the war crumbled as inept British policies fueled the rise of Sinn Féin separatists, paving the way for their 1918 election victory. A complex scene of unique local events.

This book examines World War One’s impact on Limerick, where initial support for the war crumbled as inept British policies fueled the rise of Sinn Féin separatists, paving the way for their 1918 election victory. A complex scene of unique local events.

From Béarn to Southern Africa or The Amazing Destiny of Eugène Casalis

By: Marie-Claude Mosimann-Barbier

£44.99

In 1832, French missionary Eugène Casalis forged an extraordinary friendship with King Moshoeshoe of Lesotho, becoming his trusted advisor and a key ally in the desperate struggle to save his kingdom from Boer expansionism.

Discourses That Matter

Selected Essays on English and American Studies

Edited By: Maria José Canelo

£44.99

Confronting our age of deep instability, this collection asks how English and American Studies can intervene. The essays explore how discourses on gender, race, and power matter, demonstrating the field's capacity to foster critical thought and challenge injustice.

Confronting our age of deep instability, this collection asks how English and American Studies can intervene. The essays explore how discourses on gender, race, and power matter, demonstrating the field’s capacity to foster critical thought and challenge injustice.