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Exhibiting Irishness traces constructions of Irish identity in national and international displays between the 1850s and 1960s. It considers exhibitions as a formative platform for imagining a host of Iri…
Romantic nationalism has profoundly shaped the contours of Syrian identity under Baathist rule, creating deeply rooted habits of thought that continue to impact the lives of Syrians today. Far from being …
Empire religiosity explores Roman Catholic female missionaries and their placement in colonial and postcolonial India. It offers fascinating insights into their idiomatic activism, juxtaposed with a contr…
Showing resistance presents a fascinating account of how exhibitions were used for propaganda and political interventions in Britain from the interwar period to the early years of the Cold War.
Described…
Italian graphic design explores the emergence and articulation of graphic design practice in Italy from the interwar period to the 1960s. It offers a much-needed critical and historical analysis of the ro…
Muslim men are often portrayed in academic and popular discourses as violent patriarchs and/or as terrorists. Against the backdrop of an increasingly hostile environment within the UK, the experiences of …
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure, the fourth full-length study of Rochester's work since David Vieth's pioneering edition of The Compete Poems (1968), is the first to bring together a reading of John…
Dante beyond influence provides the first systematic inquiry into the formation of the British critical and scholarly discourse on Dante in the late nineteenth century (1865-1921). Overcoming the primacy …
Relics, dreams, voyages conjures a new cultural map of the early-modern world and offers a new, extraordinary cultural geography of the baroque world, opening doors to many rich and strange cultural artef…
The business of time explores the evolution of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, offering a comprehensive history of the sector.
Watch production today is concent…
The artist Honoré Daumier (1808-79) gained early notoriety after being jailed for a caricature of King Louis-Philippe. He continued to test the electric fence of shifting censorship laws throughout his ca…
The artist Honoré Daumier (1808-79) gained early notoriety after being jailed for a caricature of King Louis-Philippe. He continued to test the electric fence of shifting censorship laws throughout his ca…
Delving into the relationship between medieval history and fiction, this book meticulously explores the political and cultural contexts around the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth-cent…
Sexual politics in revolutionary England explores the sudden appearance of graphic sex-talk in polemical print during the English Revolution. This was a novel development, for prior to 1640, explicit sexu…
When all that was solid melted into air... For decades, intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in thrall to this vision of the mid-nineteenth century. It shaped and underpi…
Printing terror takes a fascinating look at American horror comics in the Cold War era, from the 1940s to the 1970s. It reveals how these comics both reflected and fed into the anxieties of the age, parti…
Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabella Tessier, 1847-90), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the …
Public Information Films were one of the British Government's responses to the communication challenges of a mass electorate. This book explores its somewhat tortuous progress in the 1930s and 1940s by ex…
This fascinating book takes us inside the homes of the forgotten poor in the period before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a wide range of sources, it gets to the heart of what it meant…
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