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Tis Pity She's a Whore: John Ford by Derek Roper
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.94John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest between brother and sister. It is one of the most... -
Devolution and the Governance of Northern Ireland by Colin Knox
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.50This book offers the first account of what the First Minister, Peter Robinson, describes as the most settled period of devolution in Northern Ireland for almost forty years. It traces the tortuous... -
The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840-1914 by Simon Gunn
Booksplease Price: £23.54The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the creation of a distinctive 'high' culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and... -
The Futures of Feminism by Valerie Bryson
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £26.61This book makes the case for an inclusive form of socialist feminism that puts multiple disadvantaged women at its heart. It moves feminism beyond contemporary disputes, including those between some... -
The Great Exhibition of 1851 by Louise Purbrick
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.23The Great Exhibition of 1851 has become a touchstone for the nineteenth century. The Crystal Palace produced a commodity world, an imperial spectacle, a picture of capitalism, a liberal dream, a... -
Music, Words and Voice: A Reader by Martin Clayton
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £61.91Music, Words and Voice: A Reader is a new and exciting interdisciplinary resource which integrates the worlds of music and literature. It is the first primary and secondary source collection of its... -
Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain: Packaging Pleasure Sandra Dawson 9780719080715
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20This book is the story of two holiday camp chains established in the 1930s that provided thousands with packaged pleasure. Warner and Butlin's commercial camps emerged at the intersection of cultural... -
The Cossacks by Shane O'Rourke
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54This is an exceptional book covering 500 years of the history of the Cossacks - the recklessly brave, wild horsemen or the romantic hero of the steppe or the brutal mounted policemen, as they have... -
John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War: With an Illustrated Selection of His Writings Jeffrey Reznick 9780719077920
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61John Galsworthy - recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature - was one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century. His literary reputation overshadows what he achieved during the... -
Images of Oliver Cromwell: Essays for and by Roger Howell, Jr R. Richardson 9780719097546
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54Oliver Cromwell has been both applauded and reviled and his memory invoked in periods and in countries other than his own. This complex historiography has left us today with many different versions... -
The Politics of the British Constitution Michael Foley 9780719045523
Booksplease Price: £19.23This work on the British constitution assesses the properties, dynamics and implications of political exchange. It investigates the methods employed to mobilise and resist the pressure for... -
The Shoemaker's Holiday: By Thomas Dekker Robert Smallwood 9780719030994
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays, entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterisation. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London and... -
New Challenges for Documentary by John Corner
Booksplease Price: £20.46The first edition of New challenges for documentary provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This... -
The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65 by Delia Jarrett-Macauley
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.99This is an original, full length biography of Britain's first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster. Una Marson is recognised... -
Structural Reform of British Local Government: Rhetoric and Reality by Michael Chisholm
Booksplease Price: £20.34During the 1990s, the structure of local government in Scotland and Wales was completely reorganised by Acts of Parliament. Under other legislation, and in response to recommendations from the Local... -
Modern French Short Fiction: An Anthology by Johnnie Gratton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The 15 writers featured in this new anthology of French short stories represent the best of the genre, from Merimee to the present day. The selection includes writers as diverse as Balzac, Colette,... -
Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing by James Procter
Booksplease Price: £23.54Explores some of the key venues of black British literary and cultural production across the postwar period: bedsits and basements; streets and cafes; train stations and tourist landscapes; the... -
Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity Colin Nicholson 9780719063619
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of modernity was the first book-length study of his work. Since the 1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the... -
The Independent Man: Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian England by Matthew McCormack
Booksplease Price: £23.54'Independence' was an important ideal for men in Georgian England. In this period, however, the word meant much more than simply the virtues of self-sufficiency and impartiality. Most people believed... -
La Mothe Le Vayer: Lettre Sur La Comedie De L'Imposteur by Robert McBride
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54The Lettre sur la comedie de l'Imposteur is the only work of any length which does full justice to comedy in the 17th century as a serious dramatic form. It is an important document in its own right... -
The Acquisition of Territory in International Law: With a New Introduction by Marcelo G. Kohen by R. Y. Jennings
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Originally published by Manchester University Press in 1963, this book is now regarded as a classic of international law literature. Jennings examines the major issues relating to the acquisition of... -
Violence and the State by Matt Killingsworth
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.05In providing a counterweight to the notion that political violence has irrevocably changed in a globalised world, Violence and the state offers an original and innovative way in which to understand... -
Pyostryye Skazki: By V. F. Odoyevsky by Neil Cornwell
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Odoyevsky's cycle of short stories, Pyostryye skazki (1833), is a transitional work between his writings of the 1820s (in particular his contributions to Mnemozina, 1824-5) and his mature period... -
Screen/Space: The Projected Image in Contemporary Art Tamara Trodd 9780719084638
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.50Projected-image art occupies an increasingly important place in the contemporary art-world. But does the projected image have its own specificity, beyond the histories of experimental film and video... -
Campaspe and Sappho and Phao: John Lyly by David Bevington
Booksplease Price: £14.37One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao" by John Lyly. The series aims to throw... -
British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939 Paul Doerr 9780719046728
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Provides students with a clear narrative overview of the period which will enable them to form critical opinions. Introduces students to the historical controversies of the period and communicates... -
Dust Carolyn Steedman 9780719060151
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.99In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the... -
Mirbeau'S Fictions by Christopher Lloyd
Booksplease Price: £23.54With the aim of encouraging a critical rereading of Mirbeau's most durable works, this study examines his problematic status as a producer of fictions, his use of humour and cruelty, and his... -
Us Politics Today by Edward Ashbee
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54The third edition of US politics today provides a concise, up-to-date and accessible introduction to US government and politics. It offers a survey of core institutions such as the Presidency,... -
Death in England: An Illustrated History by Peter Jupp
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.84Death in England provides the first ever social history of death from the earliest times 500,000 BC to Diana, Princess of Wales.. The book reveals how attitudes, practices and beliefs about death... -
Moliere: L'Imposteur De 1667: A Critical Edition by Robert McBride
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54This book is the second part of an important experimental trilogy in text archaeology of all the various ideas about the 1664 and later versions. Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite),... -
Doctor Faustus, A- and B- Texts 1604: Christopher Marlowe Eric Rasmussen 9780719016431
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.95This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included... -
Candide En Dannemarc, Ou l'Optimisme Des HonneTes Gens: Voltaire by Edouard Langille
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Published in Rouen in 1767 and reprinted two years later, Voltaire's Candide en Dannemarc, ou l'optimisme des honnetes gens wraps up the adventures of Candide. Turning his back on both Voltairean... -
Republican Passions: Family, Friendship and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France by Susan K. Foley
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Republican passions demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the creation of the French Third Republic. Based on the family archives of Léon Laurent-Pichat, journalist,... -
Political Ethics in Illiberal Regimes: A Realist Interpretation by Zoltán Gábor Szucs
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £49.06What is it like to live in an illiberal regime? Ethical life in totalitarian regimes is easy to critique because it deviates from everything we think morally acceptable. But illiberal regimes are... -
The Politics of Health Promotion: Case Studies from Denmark and England by Peter Triantafillou
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20This book examines the quest to promote the health and vigour of individuals and populations of liberal democracies. It provides a detailed account of the emergence and working of Danish and English... -
Epic / Everyday: Moments in Television by Sarah Cardwell
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.50An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the ‘Moments in Television’ collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television... -
The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin De Siecle by Sally Ledger
Booksplease Price: £23.54Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of... -
Writing Black Britain, 1948-98: An Interdisciplinary Anthology by James Procter
Booksplease Price: £23.54The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.... -
Defeated Flesh: Welfare, Warfare and the Making of Modern France Bertrand Taithe 9780719081262
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Defeated flesh dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris.. This is one of the first books to develop an in-depth, comparative analysis of the...