Publications
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A World You Do Not Know
(2013)
A World You Do Not Know explores the wilful ignorance demonstrated by North America’s settlers in establishing their societies on lands already occupied by indigenous nations. Using the Innu of Labrador-Quebec as one ...
The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures
(2022)
From houses to roads, infrastructures offer a unique lens through which to explore social and political change. Serving as an important conduit between states and citizens, infrastructures provide governments with a powerful ...
Ancient Athens and Modern Ideology
(2005)
For over a century the foundations of Athenian political economy have been debated by scholarly camps broadly described as primitivist/substantivist, modernist and Marxist and involving political economists, sociologists ...
The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy
(2022)
This important book assesses the size and nature of Caribbean slavery’s economic impact in British society. The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy, a grouping of West India merchants and planters, became active before the emancipation ...
Pieter Geyl and Britain
(2022)
Pieter Geyl (1887—1966) was undoubtedly one of the most internationally renowned Dutch historians of the twentieth century, but also one of the most controversial. Having come to the UK as a journalist, he started his ...
Anti-Communism in Britain During the Early Cold War
(2023)
The Cold War produced in many countries a form of political repression and societal paranoia which often infected governmental and civic institutions. In the West, the driving catalyst for the phenomenon was anti-communism. ...
International Handbook on Clinical Tax Education
(2023)
While tax clinics have existed in the US since the 1970s, they are now being established throughout the world, with recent clinical developments in Australia, the UK and Ireland in particular. Of interest to higher education ...
Becoming a Historian
(2022)
Writing history is an art and a craft. This handbook supports research students and independent scholars by showing how the historical profession works and how to participate in its vibrant community of scholars. It outlines ...
Before Grenfell
(2023)
On 14 June 2017, flames engulfed a residential block of flats in West London. 72 people lost their lives and many hundreds more were traumatised as a national ‘cladding crisis’ unfolded. Yet the Grenfell Tower fire was a ...
The Narrators in 'Macbeth'
(1986)
This lecture was originally published by the Institute of English Studies, University of London in 1986. The Hilda Hulme Memorial Lectures were established in 1985 following a donation from Mr Mohamed Aslam in memory of ...
The Dull Duty of an Editor': Working with Webster and Dickens
(1996)
This lecture was originally published by the Institute of English Studies, University of London in 1996. The Hilda Hulme Memorial Lectures were established in 1985 following a donation from Mr Mohamed Aslam in memory of ...
Dante and Rossetti: Translation, Pastiche, Ritual, Fate
(2005)
In October 1869, Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet, Gabriel Dante Rossetti exhumed the grave of his former muse and wife, Elizabeth Siddal, to retrieve some earlier poetry he had buried with her. The collection was published ...
The Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1668–1813
(2022)
The office of the poet laureate of Britain was a highly prominent, relevant and respectable institution throughout the long eighteenth century. First instituted for John Dryden in 1668, the laureateship developed from an ...
Providing for the Poor
(2022)
The Old Poor Law in England and Wales, administered by the local parish, dispensed benefits to paupers providing a uniquely comprehensive, pre-modern system of relief. Remaining in force until 1834, the law provided goods ...
The Signature in Law
(2022)
This book explores the judicial development of the concept of the signature from the thirteenth century to the age of the facsimile transmission. It puts the concept of the signature into a broad legal context to set out ...
New Fragments of Menander’s Epitrepontes
(2021)
In this brand new and exquisite 2021 translation of the classic Greek play, Epitrepontes, or 'The Arbitration', produced around 300 BC, Menander tackles the subject of a broken marriage. Charisios has left his young wife ...
Charlotte Brontë's City of Glass
(1992)
This lecture was originally published by the Institute of English Studies, University of London in 1992. The Hilda Hulme Memorial Lectures were established in 1985 following a donation from Mr Mohamed Aslam in memory of ...
Shakespeare and Revision
(1987)
This lecture was originally published by the Institute of English Studies, University of London in 1987. The Hilda Hulme Memorial Lectures were established in 1985 following a donation from Mr Mohamed Aslam in memory of ...
Dickens, George Eliot and George Henry Lewes
(1991)
When the Victorian journalist and critic, George Henry Lewes invited George Eliot and Charles Dickens to dinner in 1859, few imagined it would lead to one of the greatest creative exchanges in literary history. From the ...
Ways into Shakespeare's Sonnets
(1990)
This lecture was originally published by the Institute of English Studies, University of London in 1990. The Hilda Hulme Memorial Lectures were established in 1985 following a donation from Mr Mohamed Aslam in memory of ...