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Between 1965 and 1975, Britain discreetly supported the Sultanate of Oman in achieving a historic Cold War-era counterinsurgency win in its remote Dhofar Province. This book posits that UK military and non-martial assistance to Oman was the primary war-winning factor.

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With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts, and impacts of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe.

Through a detailed study of the circulation of European silent film in Australasia in the early twentieth century, this book challenges the historical myopia that treats Hollywood films as having always dominated global film culture. Before World War I, European silent feature films were ubiquitous in Australia and New Zealand, teaching Antipodean audiences about Continental cultures and familiarizing them with glamorous European stars, from...

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Offers an answer to: what would Orwell have written after 1984, had he lived?

This volume considers the coevolving nature of the arms trade and defenceâEUR"industrial processes and the resulting complexity of the international arms-transfer system. It situates arms transfers in a defenceâEUR"industrial landscape where arms production is increasingly transnational, involving states that have not featured as notable arms producers.

This edited volume investigates how Gulf women negotiate spaces of dissent through their writing. The focus on women's narratives offers critical perspectives on how Gulf women construct themselves as gendered selves and authors, how they exist in public and private spaces, and how voice and agency are part of their conversations.

Paganism Persisting is a history of revivals of pagan religion in Europe from late antiquity to the 20th century. It explores the motives, beliefs and circumstances behind a series of attempted revivals in antiquity, the Byzantine empire, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Victorian era, and the twentieth century.

Examines D.H. Lawrence's attempts to establish a utopian community in Cornwall during WWI. Lawrence was drawn to the idea of a 'Celtic Cornwall' beyond England's reach and thus remote from the war.

The profound turbulence in global politics is the result of digital information technologies changing the structure and makeup of world order.

This timely book focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences childrenâEUR(TM)s and adolescentsâEUR(TM) development, subjectivity, identifications, and identity formations.

The New Germany provides a picture of contemporary Germany from a variety of perspectives, establishing relationships between recent political events and society and cultural life.

This book takes a comprehensive approach to new ways of thinking about air and its ways of relating to the world, through society, place, objects, environments, and technologies. It seeks to represent the broad spectrum of air and the politics of invisibility that reflect the complex and often conflicted nature of lives today.

A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano presents an original way of looking at aspects of major relevance to Roman culture of the imperial period.

This book takes a comprehensive approach to new ways of thinking about air and its ways of relating to the world, through society, place, objects, environments, and technologies. It seeks to represent the broad spectrum of air and the politics of invisibility that reflect the complex and often conflicted nature of lives today.

What's a djibbah, how long has the old school tie been around and do yellow petticoats really repel vermin? This book will provide answers to these questions and more, in an engaging foray into 500 years of British school uniform history from the charity schools of the sixteenth century through the Victorian public schools to the present day.

This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature. It offers new readings of familiar texts, and re-inserts little-known textual versions of Cornwall alongside those that have predominated. All of the alternative versions of place discussed in this book complicate more familiar tourist-friendly imaginings of Cornwall.