Publications
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The Simons of Manchester
(2024)
This book revives the lives and public work of two generations of the Simon family who, over a period of more than a century (1860–1970), had a powerful influence in shaping modern Manchester. It uses a combination of ...
Peace and the politics of memory
(2024)
This book explores memory politics and its impact on the quality of peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. Situating the book in the literature of critical Peace Research and Memory Studies, the authors ...
Beyond nationalism
(2024)
This book presents the most comprehensive theory of the common good of the European Union (EU) currently available and proposes concrete policies to improve its achievement. It begins with a discussion of EU values, which ...
Science and the politics of openness
(2018)
The phrase ‘here be monsters’ or ‘here be dragons’ is commonly believed to have been used on ancient maps to indicate unexplored territories which might hide unknown beasts. This book maps and explores places between science ...
Gothic incest
(2018-02-24)
The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest ...
Colonialism and Antarctica
(2024)
This is the first major exploration of how – and if – colonialism can be a useful concept in analysing Antarctica, and whether Antarctica can help reveal the analytical limits of colonialism as a concept. It is a contribution ...
Showing resistance
(2024)
Showing resistance explores how exhibitions were used as propaganda during the two decades from 1933. Mounted in public places – from stations to workers’ canteens, empty shops and bombsites – exhibitions were identified ...
Digital ecologies
(2024)
In an era of mass extinction, climate emergency, and biodiversity collapse, what role do digital media have in securing liveable futures? To what extent are digital media mitigating or intensifying environmental crises? ...
Other Everests
(2024)
Mount Everest looms large in the popular imagination. Since the deaths of mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine in 1924, histories of the mountain have overwhelmingly focused on the mythologies of Western male ...
Living the urban periphery
(2024)
The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries and the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them. ...
Europeanisation as violence
(2025)
The book explores the violence enacted on Europe’s many internal and external Souths and Easts through forms of political, cultural, security and development-related Europeanisation. The twelve contributions, from both ...
The renewal of post-war Manchester
(2025)
This book is about an exciting time in the development of European cities – from the 1950s to the 1970s – when capital flowed, energy was cheap and abundant, citizens were more mobile than ever before, and a new optimism ...
Empire's daughters
(2024)
While girls are often consigned to the shadows in studies of colonialism, Empire’s daughters uncovers the ways in which girls and ideas of girlhood were central to the construction of colonial identities and societies and ...
Bartered bridegrooms
(2024)
Muslim men are often portrayed in academic and popular discourses as violent patriarchs and/or as terrorists. Against the backdrop of an increasingly hostile environment within the United Kingdom, this book explores the ...
The material body
(2024)
The Material Body exploits the possibilities of studying the material body in the past primarily through the sources and approaches of archaeology, history and material culture studies. Together, these seven chapters draw ...
The United States in the Indo-Pacific
(2020)
This edited collection examines the political, economic and security legacies of former US President Barack Obama in Asia and the Pacific, following two terms in office between 2009 and 2017. In a region that has only ...
The freedom of scientific research
(2020)
Never have the scope and limits of scientific freedom been more important or more under attack. New science, from artificial intelligence to genomic manipulation, creates unique opportunities to make the world a better ...
Houses built on sand
(2020)
The events of the Arab Uprisings posed an existential challenge to sovereign power across the Middle East. Whilst popular movements resulted in the toppling of authoritarian rule in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, other regimes ...
States and statistics in the nineteenth century
(2010)
This book is a history of an illusion. It is also a history of the dream that preceded the illusion. The book discusses statistics as the field of tension between the scientific claims of neutrality and universality on the ...
Personalised cancer medicine
(2021)
What does it mean to personalise cancer medicine? Personalised cancer medicine explores this question by foregrounding the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners in the UK. Drawing on an ethnographic study of ...