Social Sciences

NeoLiberal Scotland

Class and Society in a Stateless Nation

Edited By: Neil Davidson, Patricia McCafferty

£24.99

Contrary to popular belief, neoliberalism has become institutionalised in Scotland. This book details for the first time its negative effects on society and democracy, and serves as a case study of neoliberalism in a “stateless nation” of the West.

Emblems of Adversity

Essays on the Aesthetics of Politics in W. B. Yeats and Others

By: Rached Khalifa

£39.99

These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats's poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.

These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats’s poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.

Discrimination in Northern Ireland, 1920-1939

Myth or Reality?

By: John O’Brien

£19.99

This book examines allegations of discrimination by Northern Ireland's Unionist government against the Catholic minority. Focusing on 1920-39, it assesses whether the charges of overt discrimination levelled against the government were warranted.

This book examines allegations of discrimination by Northern Ireland’s Unionist government against the Catholic minority. Focusing on 1920-39, it assesses whether the charges of overt discrimination levelled against the government were warranted.

The Medieval Empire in Central Europe

Dynastic Continuity in the Post-Carolingian Frankish Realm, 900-1300

By: Herbert Schutz

£44.99

This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe's strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.

This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe’s strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.

Confronting the Challenges and Prospects in the Creation of a Union of African States in the 21st Century

By: E. Ike Udogu

£39.99

Africa, arguably the world’s richest continent, lags in development and is politically marginalized. This book debates strategies to advance a Union of African States, arguing it is critical to provide the clout needed to spur development and gain global relevance.

L’Intime épistolaire (1850-1900)

genre et pratique culturelle

By: Jelena Jovicic

£39.99

Through the private letters of authors like Flaubert, Zola, and Sand, this study casts fresh light on intimacy in Nineteenth-Century French culture. It interprets letter writing as a unique genre, distinct from diaries or memoirs, with its own rules.

Mary Shelley

Her Circle and Her Contemporaries

Edited By: L. Adam Meckler, Lucy Morrison

£39.99

This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.

Prisoners of War and Forced Labour

Histories of War and Occupation

Edited By: Marianne Neerland Soleim

£39.99

This book expands the historical perspective by connecting the Holocaust with the treatment of prisoners of war and forced labourers in the Third Reich. The volume consists of papers from international researchers presented at the Falstad symposium.

Berkeley

A Portrait

By: Damian Ilodigwe

£34.99

This book reconstructs Berkeley’s philosophy, arguing his opposition to materialism was not subjective idealism but a common-sense response to the emergence of modern science, offering a fuller, realist portrait of his philosophy of immaterialism.

Internet Survey Methodology

By: Charles Vickroy Balch

£34.99

This book provides researchers the understandings needed to develop scientifically validated internet survey methods. To avoid 'Garbage In, Garbage Out,' it is essential to support best practices in presentation, sampling, data collection, and analysis.

This book provides researchers the understandings needed to develop scientifically validated internet survey methods. To avoid ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out,’ it is essential to support best practices in presentation, sampling, data collection, and analysis.

Making Sense of the Global

Anthropological Perspectives on Interconnections and Processes

Edited By: Raúl Acosta, Sadaf Rizvi, Ana Santos

£39.99

Anthropology is more relevant than ever to making sense of intercultural encounters in our shrinking world. This volume’s analyses show how ethnographic research creates bridges of understanding and can contribute to a better understanding of social phenomena.

Wretched Refuge

Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern

Edited By: Jessica Datema, Diane Krumrey

£34.99

This book reimagines the immigrant experience as part of a larger motif: the postmodern itinerant. As a figure of displacement and dispersion, the itinerant suggests a cosmopolitan response to anxieties about global hegemony in works by Diaz, Lahiri, and others.

The Right to Roam

Travellers and Human Rights in the Modern Nation-State

By: Dualta Roughneen

£34.99

Nomadic groups and sedentary society have been in conflict for ages. ‘The Right to Roam’ examines the right of nomadic groups to maintain their way of life against the drive toward sedentarisation, exploring the case of Travellers in modern Ireland.

The Body Unbound

Philosophical Perspectives on Politics, Embodiment and Religion

Edited By: Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Ola Sigurdson, Sigríður Þorgeirsdóttir

£39.99

A philosophical inquiry into politics, embodiment, and religion confronts notorious contemporary issues, from suicide bombing to biopolitics. Contributors uncover resources to unbind a body which has been doubly bound by history, law, and culture.

Reveries of Home

Nostalgia, Authenticity and the Performance of Place

Edited By: Nigel Rapport, Solrun Williksen

£39.99

Reveries of Home considers understandings of home in a globalized world. A series of case-studies reveals how home-making is an ongoing work, cementing the close connections that remain between home and identity, even in a world of movement.

Improvisation

Between Technique and Spontaneity

Edited By: Marina Santi

£34.99

This book explores improvisation—a creative process where shared practices meet spontaneity. The studies within contend that artistic improvisation holds the key to understanding the improvisation that pervades our professions and everyday experiences.

The International Emblem

From Incunabula to the Internet Selected Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, 28th July-1st August, 2008, Winchester College

Edited By: Simon McKeown

£64.99

The emblem, a Renaissance genre combining text and image, was a powerful tool for propaganda and piety. This collection of essays follows its development from its European origins to its global influence and its ongoing vitality in literature and scholarship.

Failed and Failing States

The Challenges to African Reconstruction

Edited By: Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco

£34.99

State collapse is a major threat to peace, stability, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. A collapsed state can no longer perform its basic security and development functions. This volume brings together key essays on these critical issues.

Queer Exoticism

Examining the Queer Exotic Within

Edited By: Judith S. Kaufman, Tamara Powell

£39.99

These essays examine the queer tendency to seek different subjects of desire in an effort to find oneself. This search for the exotic becomes a path to self-knowledge, where the outward gaze turns inward to reveal an inner exoticism.

Writing History in the Third Republic

By: Isabel Noronha-DiVanna

£39.99

This book offers new insight into the French historians of 1860-1914 known as the école méthodique. It reassesses whether this school emerged in response to political developments or a shared philosophy, offering a counter-argument to postmodernist scholars.

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