Publications
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Moving Histories
(2018)
Moving Histories is an original and enlightening book which details the lives of women who left Ireland after independence. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, this book traces new narratives to bring original ...
Distortion and Subversion
(2022)
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the Brazilian punk and hardcore music scene joined forces with political militants to foster a new social movement that demanded the universal right to free public transportation. ...
New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’
(2022)
Across Europe, the early medieval period saw the advent of new ways of cereal farming which fed the growth of towns, markets and populations, but also fuelled wealth disparities and the rise of lordship. These developments ...
Empire Found
(2022)
Empire Found: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures examines how the discourses and narratives of Portuguese imperial exceptionalism and Portuguese racial identity, developed ...
Transnational Modern Languages
(2022)
In a world increasingly defined by the transnational and translingual, and by the pressures of globalization, it has become difficult to study culture as primarily a national phenomenon. A Handbook offers students across ...
Football and Nation Building in Colombia (2010-2018)
(2022)
This book explores the pivotal role that football played as part of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ national unity project centred on the peace process with the FARC. Football has huge political and social capital ...
Science Fiction and Climate Change
(2023)
Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism amongst Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near-consensus amongst climate scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse ...
Disability and the Posthuman
(2023)
This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women’s writing by shedding new light on a group of authors commonly dismissed as middlebrow in their concerns and conservative in their styles and ...
British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960
(2023)
This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women’s writing by shedding new light on a group of authors commonly dismissed as middlebrow in their concerns and conservative in their styles and ...
Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool?
(2023)
In the 1968 local elections the Liverpool Conservatives won 62 percent of the vote and 78 percent of the seats on Liverpool City Council. By 1972 the party had held a majority on Liverpool’s municipal government for 85 of ...
A City Against Empire
(2023)
A City Against Empire is the history of the anti-imperialist movement in 1920s Mexico City. It combines intellectual, social, and urban history to shed light on the city’s role as an important global hub for anti-imperialism, ...
Blessed Thessaly
(2024)
Thessaly was a region of great importance in the ancient Greek world, possessing both agricultural abundance and a strategic position between north and south. It presents historians with the challenge of seeing beyond ...
Haiti for the Haitians by Louis-Joseph Janvier
(2023)
The world-historical significance of the Haitian Revolution is now firmly established in mainstream history. Yet Haiti’s nineteenth-century has yet to receive its due, this despite independent Haiti’s vital importance as ...
Tokens in Classical Athens and Beyond
(2023)
A selection of essays on symbola, as the tokens of Classical Athens were called, bringing together scholars of various disciplines and professional categories (numismatists, historians, museum curators) that intends to ...
Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland
(2023)
Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland presents comparative case studies of clock time from Fiji and Finland in order to ask what other values is time capable of expressing besides monetary worth – what “else” ...
Romani People as Object and Subject of Scientific Inquiry : Scientification of Roma or RomaNization of science?
(2024)
The special issue of Romani Studies entitled “Romani people as object and subject of scientific inquiry: Scientification of Roma or RomaNization of science?” brings forward innovative approaches to critically revise the ...
State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
(2023)
This monograph describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the Dutch Golden Age. It is an in-depth study of early modern ‘state communication’: the manner in which government sought to inform its ...
Aum Shinrikyo and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory
(2022)
Aum Shinrikyō’s sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995 left an indelible mark on Japanese society. This book is the first comprehensive study of the competing memories of Aum Shinrikyō’s religious terrorism. ...
Media, Religion, Citizenship
(2023)
This book is about Alevi media and the ways in which it has generated a particular form of citizenship that I call transversal citizenship. Alevis have been struggling for the right of recognition and equal citizenship in ...
Female Servants in Early Modern England
(2024)
What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? More fundamentally, who were these women? Where did they come from? In what kinds of households did they work and what were they hired to do? How did their ...