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The question of how the international community should engage in a legitimate way in state-building in war- torn, weak or failing states is a priority question for international relations. This book draws on a group of specialists to examine this question in relation to a new model of state-building intervention in the Pacific 'arc of crisis'. -- .

This book offers a broad sweep of 500 years of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and state-formation. This book illuminates links between concurrent events in diverse places and provides insights into the daily concerns and critical debates of the day through engagement with primary sources. -- .

This book contends that Ireland's Magdalen laundries chiefly exist in the public mind at the level of story (cultural representation and survivor testimony) rather than history (archival history and documentation). -- .

A valuable collection of essays that look at Anthony Burgess's relationship with Modernism and postmodernity -- .

A comprehensive volume which looks at the multifaceted career of one of Britain's most underrated film directors, with contributions from Martin Scorcese, Kevin Jackson, Gavin Millar and others -- .

A comical satire about envy and aspiration amongst the ambitious middle classes, who think happiness is to be found in fame and material fortune. It exposes the importance of seeing and judging the world as it is and not being duped by its pretences.

States that "Epicene" is one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. This book analyzed the play as originally written for the newly formed Children of the Queen's Revels, and performed at the little-known Whitefriars Theatre. It discusses the composition of the play, which took place during a critical period in Jonson's life and career.

Elizabeth Gaskell is best known as a novelist and biographer, but she was also a lively and sensitive letter writer, with a vivacious interest in all that was going on around her. This selection from her letters, with a linking commentary provides a biography of Elizabeth Gaskell largely in her own words. -- .

Presents a range of scholarly analyses of how George Bush and Tony Blair used (or misused) intelligence about WMD in taking their countries to war in Iraq. The study includes original excerpts from speeches and reports on the need to go to war and what subsequently went wrong as well as cutting edge analysis of the decision-making involved. -- .

This is an annotated edition of El laberinto de la soledad, a classic text on Mexican culture and identity, first published in 1950 by Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz. It includes a wide-ranging introduction, hundreds of explanatory notes and four appendices. -- .

This fascinating book takes the reader on a rich and varied study of one of the greatest television programmes of all time: Doctor Who. Combining essays from academics in Screen Studies with practitioners who have contributed to the ongoing narrative of Doctor Who, this collection is the first to study the Doctor's adventures in all their forms. -- .

A new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. The first primary and secondary source collection of its kind to focus on the relationship between words and music and between musical and literary forms. -- .

This volume brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900. It looks at women working outside conventional canons, and are shown how they negotiated relationships with canonical forms of artistic production.

A detailed overview of criminal law aimed at A2 and undergraduate students -- .

No British social movement captured contemporary imaginations as Chartism did. This unique book is the only history to offer complete, in-depth coverage of the full chronological spread of its activities (1838-58), based throughout on detailed research. -- .

A fascinating and revealing set of essays discussing the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema -- .

Devolution in Britain today provides a comprehensive analysis of both the historical development and current state of devolved government. The book is written in a clear and accessible style for students either encountering devolution for the first time or for those who need to explore the subject area in greater detail. -- .

Written specifically for A2 students of government and politics, this book covers the comparative dimension of advanced level study, directly comparing the political systems and the social and cultural settings in the UK and USA. -- .

Compares the position of Catholic minorities in England and the Dutch Republic. This volume explores Catholicism as a minority culture that resorted to unorthodox means, both to retain its own identity, and to survive in a hostile political environment.

Presents a commentary on "Love's Sacrifice". This book includes a survey of critical responses, an overview of the play, stage history, and a bibliography of relevant secondary material. It is of use to students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field.

Two of John Lyly's most engaging plays -- .

The 1601 quarto version of Johnson's play, set in Florence -- .

Federico Garcia Lorca is one of the outstanding poets of Spanish literature. Apart from his trilogy of stage tragedies, 'Romancero gitano' (Gypsy ballads) is his most celebrated work: innovative, sophisticated, difficult and uniquely popular. -- .

A poem-by-poem guide to Romancero gitano, Federico Garcia Lorca's poetic masterpiece, containing comprehensive commentaries, introduction to relevant background material and select critical bibliographies for each poem. To be used alongside Ramsden's critical edition of Romancero gitano. -- .

Studies the creation of a distinctive 'high' culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s. This book argues for the importance of ritualised modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority in the nineteenth-century city.

A play that offers an unusually cynical assessment of the social and familial displacements, and the alienation and loss of cultural memory so characteristic of life in the great metropolis of early modern London.

This is the first comprehensive critical edition of Pablo Neruda's internationally renowned and widely studies collection of poems Viente poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada to appear in English. -- .

European Film Noir is an innovative and original collection of essays that analyse specific noirs - France, Germany, Britain, Spain and Italy - framed by an inclusive overview of the 'noir phenomenon'. -- .

This original and innovative book examines an intensive period in the development of London, when in the opening decades of the nineteenth century a concerted attempt was made to transform the metropolis into a modern European capital -- .

Austin presents a multi-dimensional investigation of popular film as a commercial, cultural and social phenomenon, focusing on "Basic Instinct", "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Natural Born Killers"; and on important - and marketable - issues such as sex and violence.