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This book addresses the topical discussion of how democracy can be achieved beyond the nation-state and challenges the widespread optimism about the democratic potential of civil society participation in European governance. -- .

This book deals with the scope and nature of the EU's external influence over South-Eastern Europe in the present enlargement. Theory-oriented and comparative, the book provides rich insight into the dynamics of the current enlargement and offers comprehensive analysis of the EU's external leverage in justice and home affairs. -- .

Explores the work of a number of key writers and important books within the academic disciplines of politics and international relations. It revisits and re-evaluates some of the landmark books, and assesses the contribution of some of the most influential writers who have played a significant role in the development of these disciplines. -- .

Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity. This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed people's eating habits focuses on the complex interactions between bodies, ritual and identity. -- .

This study of the construction of black womanhood in Jamaica between 1865 and 1938 sheds new light on the struggle for full and equal citizenship of people of African descent in the post-emancipation British Caribbean. -- .

This collection of essays, by a selection of international film and cultural studies scholars, undertakes analyses of Catherine Deneuve's status as one of the world's most celebrated French actresses, as well as a glamorous fashion muse. -- .

This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field. -- .

Focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. This title interrogates how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologised, narrated and embodied in public culture in the twentieth century.

Russian nineteenth-century society, as seen through the art of the Wanderers, the nation's largest and most successful dissident school of realist painters, provides a fascinating social panorama of the late tsarist period: the land, the people, its times and history. -- .

The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character -- .

This book provides an outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxon' adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day.

An exciting new anthology of plays and performance texts by British and American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1930s. Written in an accessible style for students it contains an overview and two introductory essays, as well as biographical materials on each of the writers. -- .

The first book-length history of the classic French children's author, the comtesse de Segur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Segur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. This study of her life and works will interest scholars of children's literature, gender studies, and nineteenth-century France. -- .

The introduction of rationing ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and commercial feature films. -- .

A focused analytical and investigative study of the game The Lord of the Rings Online from a range of cultural and design perspectives written by well-known experts in their fields. The essays collected here make an important contribution to the development of contemporary Game Studies, as well as to Media Studies and Adaptation Studies. -- .

This book addresses the Anglo-American special relationship from the perspective of post-Second World War British governments. -- .

This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. -- .

An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates. It will be of interest not only to historians but to anyone interested in housing, housing policy, and key issues in urban studies. -- .

This is the only book currently on the market that attempts to construct a global perspective of Christian-Muslim interaction in a post-9/11 world. -- .

Both pedagogical and critical, this collection outlines the current state of recognition theory, studies the influence of French theory upon its evolution, and uses French thought to identity aspects of the recognitive process which are often overlooked. -- .

This book examines how left-wing parties are being affected by European integration. It does so by concentrating on the left-wing responses to the Treaty of Lisbon and the European Constitutional Treaty. -- .

Return migration has long been a significant but neglected aspect of international population movements thorughout the centuries. Emigrant homecomings is the first study to rectify this imbalance by analyzing the motives, experiences and impact of returners in a wide range of locations over four centuries. -- .

The book explores the previously under-researched patterns and practices that fashioned a modern consumer society, charting the evolving habits among English men and women across three centuries. -- .

This book explores changing notions of political and personal virtue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and offers a new account of masculinity and citizenship in English culture. -- .

This book is a scholarly and lively account of the interactions between art and ethnography in Paris in the pre-WW2 period, drawing upon a diverse range of primary and archival materials: non-western art, anthropological expeditions, museum displays and works by artists in Paris. -- .

Global Politics in the Information Age presents a provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet. -- .

Provides a critical introduction to the key theoretical developments in contemporary Irish cultural criticism since the mid-1980s. Draws on aspects of the work of all the critics considered to advance a new theory of the representation of subjectivity in Irish writing. -- .

Ireland's international reputation has suffered periodic fluctuation, from model case of rapid development, to exemplar of political and economic mismanagement. This book argues that both perspectives overlook more important and persistent features of Irish political life. -- .

Explores a new area of Cromwellian studies that has not been fully explored before and covers a wide range of both domestic and international research. Its wide chronological and geographical range make it attractive to those interested in the history of other periods and countries, as well as to students of early modern Britain. -- .

An annotated anthology of the ever-fascinating tradition of Decadence in 19th-century writing, including key manifestos, critical declarations, poems, stories, critical responses, parodies, and ancient Roman antecedents. the book forms an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for others fascinated by Decadent writing. -- .