This book traces the political genealogy of railways from their introduction in the heyday of rai...

This anniversary reissue of the acclaimed biography tells the remarkable life story of Eva Gore-B...

Policing the beats exposes the long history of policing Black music from the era of coloni...

This volume explores how contemporary art in East and Southeast Asia addresses ecological crises,...

This book explores acting in a range of Hitchcock films, with leading scholars providing close re...

The love of books explores the bond between people and books in the UK. Using interviews a...

The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange O...

How is it that the age of Enlightenment gave rise to the genre of the literary ghost story? What ...

When is the use of force for humanitarian purposes legitimate? The book examines this question th...

Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position ...

Civilised by beaststells the story of nineteenth-century Dublin through human-anima...

From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Liverpool was frequently referre...