In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the…

The idea that research needs to become more interdisciplinary has been widely argued in recent decades. This book presents a series of empirical, historical and theoretical studies that interrogate contemporary…

First published in 1844, this is Thackeray’s earliest substantial work of fiction and perhaps his most original. The text is that of Saintbury’s 1908 Oxford edition which incorporates Thackeray’s revisions.

This work fills a gap in literature by outlining a Foucaultian approach to the study of government and the state.

Written in everyday language and based on scholarship grounded in historical detail, this enlightening book considers the nineteenth-century religious and intellectual crosscurrents that shaped Ralph Waldo Emerson’s worldview to reveal…

Barry Woodward grew up in Greater Manchester, England. At the age of 16 he left school without graduating and was drawn into the drug scene, experimenting with marijuana, amphetamines, and…

Poetry Wars describes the battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s between radicals and conservatives, which had lasting effects on British poetry. Myths and anecdotes about these events…

This book reconsiders the shape and details of the English law of homicide, a topic avoided by governments in their plans for law reform. It discusses how the law should…