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Explores the zoomorphic imagination and imagemaking of Eurasian nomads and their dynamic interactions with neighbouring sedentary empires

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers

This book provides a ground breaking analysis of the concrete practices of Islamist movements to assess their impact on post 2011 activism.

Explores the critical encounter between anarchism and law

Examines the Free Church of Scotland Mission in South Africa

Explores the changing nature of digital labour and work both before and during the Covid-19 pandemic

This is the story of Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed, an exploration of when and where ancient myths become metonymic in varied forms of contemporary cultural and aesthetic representations.

Explores the diversity of women's work in transatlantic and continental publishing across the twentiethcentury

Utilises women's independent cinema to explore Simone de Beauvoir's notion of ambiguity in film experience

Gives a unique insight into British television between 1929-53

Examines how centralised authoritarian regimes upgrade their system of local governance

Provides the first comprehensive history of the politics of film finance in Britain from the end of the Second World War to 1985

Analyses British pressure to partition and ultimately destroy the Ottoman Empire

[headline]A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century Examining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts, Arin Keeble offers a detailed analysis of the ways novels from around the world have represented terrorism in the early twenty-first century. Over five chapters, he uncovers a movement away from event-based narratives toward depictions of terrorism as...

For all its familiarity as a widely used term, "Kafkaesque cinema" remains an often-baffling concept. Taking a cue from Jorge Luis Borges' point that Kafka has modified our conception of past and future artists, and André Bazin's suggestion that literary concepts and styles can exceed authors and "novels from which they emanate", this book proposes a comprehensive examination of Kafkaesque cinema in order to understand it as part of a transnat...

The first book to comprehensively address Yeats's engagements across the arts as both writer and cultural worker

Explores the political aspects of sainthood, martyrdom and relics in late antique Caucasia

The first comparative analysis of royalist and Covenanter political thought within a cross-confessional European context During the Scottish Revolution (1637-1651), royalists and Covenanters appealed to Scottish law, custom and traditional views on kingship to debate the limits on King Charles I's authority. However, they also engaged with the political, legal and ecclesiological ideas of 16th - and 17th-century Protestant and Catholic authors...

Interrogates how the images of migrants and refugees effect the legitimacy of legal changes in the area of migration law

A fresh theoretical approach to help our understanding and analysis of electoral integrity in Turkey