Law across imperial borders

Law across imperial bordersThis book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority.

The contributors include an art critic

Gendered Transformations offers readers a new foundation from which to reexamine traditional perspectives on gender

As a critical and academic alternative to the more commercially driven

This work offers a new narrative of the formative years of the Club and early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacular literature

This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the ‘autobiographical turn’ in art

Lucía Puenzo's The German Doctor and Damián Szifron's Wild Tales

While this has often been identified simply with nationalism

the Norman expansion and their political and social organisation in the period between c

This book is a timely intervention into the apparently growing culture wars around free speech as a political and social issue

and masculinity in the development and practice of mass oppositional politics

bringing together Lacanian theory and Italian cinema

The ghost of Dan Andrea and his guide Revenge observe the dark and bloody action throughout