'The transformational power of music education is illuminating throughout every page of this remarkable book. The authors vividly illuminate its wide-ranging position in society, constantly challenging the reader with new insights that relate to both the art and science of music…
Focuses on a number of peace movements in Britain and West Germany from the end of Second World War in 1945 to the early 1970s to understand how European societies experienced and reacted to the Cold War.
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It co…
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It co…
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It co…
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It co…
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It co…
It is usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in an otherwise convulsed and unstable Europe; its political history a smooth sequence of administrations, from building a welfare state to coping with decline. Nobody would dream of writing the history of Germany,…
When New Labour came to power in 1997, they embarked on a programme of regeneration for many of our inner cities. Now, with New Labour capsized, Owen Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s, an emphatic expression of a failed politics.
The internment of 'enemy aliens' during the Second World War was arguably the greatest stain on the Allied record of human rights on the home front. Internment during the Second World Warcompares and contrasts the experiences of foreign nationals unfortunate enough to be born in…
This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and sodomite…
'Unseasonable Youth' examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence.
"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel ishaunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection andinferiorisation…
"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisati…
Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of strong women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant that his women were first played by boys? This work shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare's plays.
At the height of the British Empire's fortunes, the stage represented the most influential form of popular entertainment. 'Acts of supremacy' looks at the way in which this medium was utilised to mould popular concepts of empire and nationhood and the authors convey the signific…