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Nineteenth Century Premiers: Pitt to Rosebery
by D. LeonardFollowing A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair, Leonard turns his attention to their 19th Century predecessors. In a series of 20 biographical essays, he recounts the principal events of their political careers, assesses their performance as Prime Ministers, and asks what lasting influence they have had.
Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust: Displaced Witnesses
by P. LassnerIn its analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, by showing how these writers complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence.
New Waves in Aesthetics (New Waves in Philosophy)
by K. Stock K. Thomson-JonesLeading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of aesthetics, and specialized treatment of individual art forms.
Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
by G. Law A. MaunderWilkie Collins: A Literary Life draws on recently available business and personal correspondence to establish a fresh portrait of one of Victorian Britain's busiest authors. The book takes in Collins's notoriously complicated private life as well as his work as a professional author in the changing world of Victorian publishing.
Adam Smith: A Moral Philosopher and His Political Economy (Great Thinkers in Economics)
by G. KennedyThis book presents the authentic Adam Smith and explores his underlying approach and radical thinking, aiming to re-establish his original intentions. The book provides a crucial reminder of how relevant Adam Smith was in his own time, and how relevant he remains as we experience the worldwide spread of opulence today.
Freud's Memory: Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body (Language, Discourse, Society)
by R. WhiteRob White reconsiders Freud's controversial theory of inherited memory, referring it both to Anglo-American commentary and post-structuralist work on psychoanalysis. White proposes that this theory is evidence of an underlying haunted retrospection in Freudian theorizing, which time and again discovers that meaning has been lost.
Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Comintern: Perspectives on Stalinization, 1917-53
by N. LaPorte K. Morgan M. WorleyBringing together leading authorities and cutting edge scholars, this collection re-examines the defining concepts of Stalinism and the Stalinization odel. The aim of the book is to explore how the common imperatives of a centralized movement were experienced across national boundaries.
Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars
by S. Casey J. WrightThis book explores the 'mental maps' of leading political figures of the era of two world wars. Chapters focus on those giants whose ideas cast a compelling shadow: Lloyd George, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, Briand and Stresemann, as well as other important figures: Poincaré, Atatuerk, Beneš, Chiang and Mao.
The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by C. SumpterThis book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence.
American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance (International Political Economy Series)
by L. Panitch M. KoningsIn a lively critique of how international and comparative political economy misjudge the relationship between global markets and states, this book demonstrates the central place of the American state in today's world of globalized finance. The contributors set aside traditional emphases on military intervention, looking instead to economics.
Bubbles in Credit and Currency: How Hot Markets Cool Down
by B. BrownDrawing on behavioral finance theory and contemporary experience, this book explores how bubbles form and subsequently burst. The author introduces a new concept of swings in market temperature defined by the extent of heterogeneity of opinion and soft irrationality, and examines the importance of these swings in the credit markets.
Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism
by Attie De Lange G. Fincham J. Hawthorn J. LotheThis book explores the varied ways in which modernist and postcolonial innovations in fiction are motivated by crises and revolutions in the human perception and appropriation of space. 'Space' for the writers concerned has its political, historical, cultural and gender dimensions as well as its geographical identity.
The French Revolution and the Creation of Benthamism
by C. BlamiresThe first study of how Genevan Etienne Dumont, and his traumatic experience of the French Revolution, shaped the reception and presentation of 'Benthamism' and masked the true face of Jeremy Bentham, one of the architects of modern society who visualised a new world based on the values of transparency, accountability, and economy.
Transparency and Accountability in Science and Politics: The Awareness Principle
by K. AnderssonThis book challenges the role of scientists in policy making and the idea of deliberative democracy. The author argues that awareness must increase among both politicians and the citizens who elect them. We must revitalise the decision-making processes in representative democracy. The book proposes new institutional structures.
The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History
by Eleonora Belfiore Oliver BennettAn intellectual history of contrasting ideas around the power of the arts to bring about personal and societal change - for better and worse. A fascinating account of the value and functions of the arts in society, in both the private sphere of individual emotions and self-development and public sphere of politics and social distinction.
Change in SMEs: Towards a New European Capitalism?
by K. Bluhm R. SchmidtMost research on institutional features of distinct varieties of capitalism in Europe has analyzed only large corporations. This volume explores the impact of the institutional and structural changes on corporate governance, management culture, and social relationships in small and medium sized enterprises in different European countries.
Serbia's Antibureaucratic Revolution: Miloševic, the Fall of Communism and Nationalist Mobilization
by N. Vladisavljevic Nebojša Vladisavljevi?The antibureaucratic revolution was the most crucial episode of Yugoslav conflicts after Tito. Drawing on primary sources and cutting-edge research, this book explains how popular unrest contributed to the fall of communism and the rise of a new form of authoritarianism, competing nationalisms and the break-up of Yugoslavia.
Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy
by N. CopseyNo other political party in the history of Britain's fascist tradition has been as successful at the ballot box as today's British National Party (BNP). This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Contemporary British Fascism offers an in-depth study of the BNP and its quest for social and political legitimacy.
Nicholas Kaldor (Great Thinkers in Economics)
by J. KingThis book explores the life and work of Nicholas Kaldor, examining the influences that shaped and inspired his writings, and looks in detail at the crucial part he played in twentieth-century economics. Offering a comprehensive intellectual portrait of Kaldor, this book explains this great economist's importance in his own time and in ours.
Romanticism and Linguistic Theory: William Hazlitt, Language, and Literature
by M. TomalinThis innovative and ground-breaking study explores the complex relationship between linguistic theory and literature during the Romantic period, focusing particularly on William Hazlitt's writings about linguistic theory and also considering figures such as Leigh Hunt, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas De Quincey.
Machinic Modernism: The Deleuzian Literary Machines of Woolf, Lawrence and Joyce
by B. MonacoHow can the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari be used to unearth the 'metaphysics' of modernist literature? This intersection of philosophy and key literary works uses their radical concepts to draw a dynamic map of modernism that explores the confrontation of each writer with the non-human machine age of the early twentieth-century.
Nation-Building and Identity in Europe: The Dialogics of Reciprocity
by R. TzanelliThis book offers a provocative theorization of nationhood, focusing on the key role played by dialogic relations of hegemony, resistance and reciprocity in the birth of the modern European nation. The relationship between Greece and Britain at the end of the nineteenth century uncovers the linguistic construction of nationalism.
Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf
by K. SimpsonThis book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culture through a focus on the gift economy at work in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the gift and its significance in her modernist aesthetics.
The Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays in Literature and Culture
by L. Barkan B. Cormack S. KeilenThis book addresses works of the European Renaissance as they relate both to the world of their origins and to a modern culture that turns to the early moderns for methodological provocation and renewal. It charts the most important developments in the field since the turn towards cultural and ideological features of the Renaissance imagination.
Transatlantic Print Culture, 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms
by A. Ardis P. CollierBuilding on recent work on Victorian print culture and the turn toward material historical research in modernist studies, this collection extends the frontiers of scholarship on the 'Atlantic scene' of publishing, exploring new ways of grappling with the rapidly changing universe of print at the turn of the twentieth century.