Romance
This book proposes a fascinating journey into the history and geography of the popular and controversial romance genre. From its origins to its latest developments, from print to film and Facebook, explore its many shapes from North America to India.
History Education is a politically contested subject, and can both promote xenophobia and develop tolerance. Accordingly, these essays address the major challenges that it faces in an era of globalisation, digital revolution, and international and religious conflict.
(Re)Interpretations
Patriarchal institutions govern women’s lives. This collection of essays illustrates how women challenge these unjust structures—in language, religion, war, and medicine—by telling their own stories and creating new pathways to reclaim justice.
The Fire Within
Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.
Africa’s Finances
Remittances to developing countries exceed development aid. This volume explores their contribution to Africa’s finances and provides guidelines to expand them, examining resources from money transfers and new technologies to skills remitted by the diaspora.
Women Framing Hair
This book explores the complex motif of hair in the work of five contemporary women artists. It investigates why hair is such a resonant site of meaning, exploring its history as a marker of identity, beauty, and power, and its darker side representing trauma.
(Re)collecting the Past
This title explores the role of memoria histórica in its broadest sense, bringing together studies of narrative, theatre, visual expressions, film, television, and radio that provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary cultural production in Spain in this regard.
Film and Television Stardom examines stars as a social phenomenon from the silent era to today’s reality TV. It provides new insights on the star system, media spectatorship, and analyzes individual stars from James Stewart to Jessica Simpson.
Customer-Centricity
Empowered customers have high expectations. This book presents a framework to understand the digital trends reshaping consumption, and analyzes the new skills and business models needed to succeed in the age of digital disruption.
Edward Thomas
Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.
Poetry and Voice
This international collection of essays fuses critical and creative treatments of poetic voice. Contributors give rare insights into inner poetic processes and artistic debates, approaching the question of what it is to ‘find a voice’ in poetry from multiple angles.
This book examines the political role of architecture through a study of Tehran’s bazaar. Going beyond conventional discourse, it considers architecture as an event, using concepts from Foucault to analyze how it transforms individuals through the act of exchange.
Within and Without Empire
This volume treats Scotland as a ‘theoretical borderland’ to question disciplinary borders. By bringing Scottish and postcolonial studies into dialogue, it fosters new paradigms for a deeper understanding of a world in dramatic flux and growing interdependence.
The Admiralty Sessions, 1536-1834
Between 1536 and 1834, England’s Admiralty Sessions tried serious maritime crimes like piracy and murder. This book documents the unique court’s history, its immense challenges, and its battle to enforce the law thousands of miles from shore.
Marine Monitoring Platforms
This book presents a comprehensive study of the challenges and technologies for observing the ocean environment. It describes state-of-the-art marine platforms and provides a vision for the future, with recommendations for ocean monitoring in the Irish context.
Peter Cochran’s book charts Byron’s profound influence on European literature, arguing that it was a mythical Byron who held sway. Europe’s writers embraced the gloomy Byronic Hero, ignoring his satirical best, until Eliot, Joyce, and Yeats read him accurately.
Trade Union Powers
Following Portugal’s austerity crisis (2011-2015), how did trade unions resist devastating impacts like wage cuts and unemployment? This book explores case studies in the metal, telecom, and transport sectors to reveal how some unions reinvented themselves while others imploded.
Mediated Deviance and Social Otherness
This thought-provoking anthology explores provocative representations of deviance in various media—from films to internet sites—and their substantial cultural, political, and social consequences for individuals of different backgrounds and lifestyles.
Intersections of Displacement
A new, hidden homelessness has emerged among asylum seekers. Examining refugee experiences in London and Toronto, this book argues that this requires a new perspective from refugees themselves, asking how they reconstruct ‘home’ in the face of differing national policies.
Ecclesia et Violentia
This interdisciplinary anthology explores violence and the medieval Church. It examines attacks against clergy, aggression between them, and the role of violence in discipline, revealing how it was integral to the legal culture and social bonds of medieval Europe.
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