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Is there a 'tradition' of British anti-racism? This volume brings together new, original scholarship to demonstrate that, if there is a meaningful tradition of 'British' anti-racism, it was created by citizens and subjects and it has been shaped by shifting imperial and transnational politics as well as national and local contexts. The volume traces how the history of anti-racism in Britain has been characterised at one end of the spectrum by paternalism and at the other end by solidarity, identifying this paternalistic-solidaristic spectrum as a major axis within British political culture. It examines the anti-racist and anti-imperialist alliances forged during the late nineteenth century, explores how anti-racist action shifted to decolonial state resistance and organising in the embers of empire, and analyses how histories and memories of racism and anti-racism were reframed and expressed at the turn of the millennium. Contributors identify moments of multi-ethnic solidarity between a range of communities and organisations, from trade unions to community 'self-help'. Chapters in this volume also pay attention to how cultural forms play a role in racial formation and anti-racist activism and alliances. Crucially, this volume explores anti-racism as a shifting and ongoing project of resistance with multiple points of geographic, intellectual and political origin and highlights a number of key continuities and fractures in the history of anti-racism in Britain.

Beyond nationalism presents a comprehensive theory of the common good of the European Union (EU) and proposes concrete policies and institutional reforms to improve its achievement. It commences with a discussion of the public values jointly endorsed by EU member states, which are seen to provide a basis for identifying a transnational common good. Labareda discusses the distinctive nature of the EU common good, which he associates with three main conditions: maintaining liberal democracy, enabling decent standards of social welfare, and ensuring a high level of environmental protection. Relying on a constructivist understanding of national interests, the author proposes a set of reforms that would allow the EU common good to be more strongly represented in the process of national interest formation in domestic politics. At the same time, he proposes significant changes in the Brussels institutional apparatus aimed at democratising the pursuit of the common good, including the creation of an EU Citizens' Assembly and the election of the presidents of the European Commission and the European Council. The book takes on board the idea that a willingness by EU citizens to recurrently sacrifice their interests for the sake of an EU common good would require stronger bonds of civic friendship among them. It proposes several policies to achieve this goal, including reducing socioeconomic inequalities in the EU, curtailing barriers against freedom of movement, and creating a transnational curriculum on EU citizenship.

Advertised in its Prologue as a prequel to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's The False One is the first literary work completely to revolve around the affair between Caesar and Cleopatra in Egypt. By frankly portraying the weakness and pettiness of such great historical personalities alongside their strength and nobility, the play brilliantly exposes Caesar and Cleopatra as flawed individuals who eventually turn out to be capable of transcending their own limits. Witty, fast-paced and laced with irony, The False One is informed by early modern discussions of issues connected with the role of courtiers, King James I's pacifist policy and the dangers of colonialism. In its deployment of the liaison between Caesar and Cleopatra as a venue for the exploration and criticism of contemporary political manoeuvring and its high-spirited and pungent appropriation of Roman history, The False One proves to be one of the most compelling Jacobean dramatizations of the classical past. This Revels Plays edition offers the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of The False One, with a thorough introduction that provides new insights on the date and the theatre of the play's first performance, examines the playwrights' imaginative reworking of their classical and contemporary sources, and explores the considerable theatrical potential of a play that has hitherto regrettably been lost to the dramatic repertory. With its modernized spelling and detailed on-page commentary, this edition makes the play newly accessible to readers, students and theatre practitioners.

Russian Orientalism in a global context examines the various ways in which Russia's artistic praxis was affected by encounters - both real and imagined - with the cultures and representational and material traditions of the so-called East or Vostok. Following the Napoleonic wars, the Russian Empire's expansionist campaigns led to the annexation of new lands in the Caucasus and Central Asia, resulting in the assimilation of religiously and ethnically diverse groups of people. However, given the country's perpetually conflicted self-identification as neither fully European nor Asian, the demarcations between "self" and "other" remained ambiguous and elusive, resulting in an Orientalist mode that was prone to hybridity, syncretism, and even self-Orientalization. This volume reconsiders the relationship between Russia and its non-Western neighbors, looking at how artists, architects, and designers engaged with this relationship from the mid-eighteenth century until the 1930s. It interrogates how Russia's perception of its position on the periphery of the West and its simultaneous self-consciousness as a colonial power shaped its artistic and cultural identity. The volume also explores the extent to which cultural practitioners participated in both the advancement and the critique of Russia's colonial machinery, especially in territories that were on the fault lines between the East and the West.

Tattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c. 1955 to present). The book aids our understanding of the crime and detective genre and the ways in which tattoos act as a mimetic device that marks and remarks these narratives in complex ways. Tattooing is focused on as a bodily narrative, incorporating the critical perspectives of posthumanism, spatiality, postcolonialism, embodiment and gender studies. The importance of the tattoo is explored through analysis of the writings of early genre exponents of detective fiction including Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the contemporary rebirth of the tattoo through the writings of Stieg Larsson, Sarah Hall, Alan Kent, Caryl Férey, Jeffery Deaver, Peter Robinson and China Miéville, amongst others. The volume includes a separate section on children's literature, examining the work of J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket in particular. Sections on film and television focus on Christopher Nolan's Memento, adaptations of the Bounty mutiny, and the television series Supernatural, Dark angel, Criminal minds, CSI: NY, and Law and order. The collection will have a broad appeal, and will be of interest to all literature and media scholars, but in particular those with an interest in crime and detective narratives, and skin studies.

In 1615, clergyman Jeremiah Dyke exclaimed 'surely wee never beginne to know Divinitie or Religion, till wee come to know our selves.' His clarion call, along with the 'devotional turn' in early modern historiography, urges us to look again at how ordinary men and women lived out their faith during extraordinary times. People and piety is an interdisciplinary collection that investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divided into two sections, it examines the 'sites' where these identities were forged (the academy, printing house, household, theatre and prison) and the 'types' of texts that expressed them (spiritual autobiographies, religious poetry and writings tied to the ars moriendi). The picture of 'lived religion' that emerges takes in such familiar figures of England's Long Reformation as George Herbert, Richard Baxter, Oliver Heywood and Katherine Sutton, while also shedding light on some of their lesser-known contemporaries, including Isaac Archer, Mary Franklin and Katherine Gell. Through cutting-edge and archival research, the book shows that piety did not define people - it was people who defined their piety. Featuring a mixture of established and emerging scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, People and piety will be of interest to those studying and teaching religion and identity in early modern England, and anyone concerned with the history of religious self-expression.

This extensive edited collection is devoted to the work of the 2017 Nobel Literature Laureate, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, featuring contributions from the most established Ishiguro scholars. It contains major new essays on each of his novels, including the first published essay on Klara and the Sun, as well as his short story collection Nocturnes, and his screenplays. Situating Ishiguro's work within current debates regarding modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism, the essays examine his engagement with the defining concerns of the contemporary novel, including national identity, Britishness, cosmopolitanism, memory, biotechnology, terrorism, Brexit, immigration and populist politics. Discussing Ishiguro both as a British and global author, this book contributes to debates regarding the politics of publishing of ethnic writers, examining how Ishiguro has managed to shape a career in resistance to narrow labelling where many other writers have struggled to achieve long-term recognition. The Introduction examines Ishiguro's body of work as a whole and Ishiguro's evolving literary reputation in light of his recent personal and commercial success. The book then offers individual essays on each of Ishiguro's novels, his short story collection, his television and film work, as well as his recent journalistic interventions. Each essay extends and updates existing criticism on Ishiguro via engagement with the most up-to-date critical frameworks, while at the same time staying true to each text's most prominent thematic concerns. With prominent contributors and comprehensive coverage, this will be the definitive volume of Ishiguro scholarship for years to come.

Following the UK's 2016 decision to leave the European Union, discussions surrounding the entangled histories of empire, colonialism, racial justice and decolonisation have become topics of national interest and fierce public debate in Britain. This book brings into view the historical and cultural background to these contemporary debates by exploring the local histories, texts and institutions of empire which have shaped Britain since 1945. In doing so, the diversity of Britain's 'postcolonial' history and society is emphasised and the depth and breadth of the Empire's legacies are revealed. Bringing together intersecting inquiries in history, literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology and more, this collection explores how the cultural legacies of empire shaped everyday British life, from the postwar era to the present day. Featuring chapters on gig venues, beauty salons, bestselling memoirs and more, this journey across post-imperial Britain investigates how the colonial past is firmly embedded in local and national cultures alike. To do so, the book uses a wide range of methodologies, from close textual analysis of literary and historical sources, to archival research and spatial analysis. When viewed in concert with one another, these offer a view of Britain after the end of the Empire which connects the steps of the British Museum to community-based theatre spaces in West Yorkshire.

This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.

Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko. Taking a pioneering approach to this intersecting cultural milieu, the book uses a unique methodology that draws on queer theory, dance studies and the analysis of movement, deportment and gesture to look anew at familiar artists and artworks, but also to bring to light queer artistic figures' key cultural contributions to the 1960s New York art world. Illustrated with rarely published images and written in clear and fluid prose, Horizontal together will appeal to specialists and general readers interested in the study of modern and contemporary art, dance and queer history.

States of enmity establishes the central role of interpersonal enmity and peace-making in the society of southern Italy in the seventeenth century. It demonstrates the roles enmity, in its diverse manifestations, played in early modern politics, legal culture and social relations. Through analysing the effects of hatred and reconciliation, the book charts a history of Spanish Naples, spotlighting its most evocative yet misrepresented characters: violent bandits and the unruly soldiers set against them; overbearing feudal lords and restive vassal; intrepid missionaries and penitent murderers; grand Spanish viceroys and poor Neapolitan rebels. Notably, this monograph is a rare example of research on early modern southern Italy that uses records from criminal courts, providing the closest encounter with the actual people involved in Naples' notorious 'disorder', constituted by homicide, banditry, feudal oppression and the Spanish regime's governing tactics. This book shows how states of public enmity and practices of peace-making structured both local politics and the central state's interaction with the provinces of the kingdom. The Kingdom of Naples was one of the most violent regions of Europe in the early modern period, States of enmity explores why this was so.

Living with Lodgers takes the reader behind the closed doors of Victorian England's domestic dwelling lodgings. For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else's home was commonplace. Indeed, at no other time has the lodger occupied such a central place in the home. Yet, despite this, lodgers and the households that accommodated them have remained significantly under-researched. This is the first book-length study to tell their story. Drawing on almost 900 coroners' inquests reported in the Victorian press, alongside census enumerators' books and other court records, this captivating book delves into the day-to-day business of lodging in someone else's home. Challenging many current perceptions and myths surrounding living with lodgers in Victorian England, this book reveals a much more complicated picture behind the who and why of domestic dwelling lodgings, examines the close networks and monetary arrangements that shaped the lodging exchange, and explores the daily interactions between lodgers and householders. Moreover, in exploring both the lines drawn and crossed in the householder-lodger relationship, this book reshapes our understanding of household dynamics in the Victorian working-class home. Living with Lodgers not only brings the domestic dwelling lodger out of the shadows but casts a new light upon Victorian England's working-class homes, making the book a vital resource for academics and students across a range of disciplines seeking to cross the threshold to these spaces.

This is the first book to examine the academic and activist career of the forgotten US sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller (1875-1951). Miller was associated with the Chicago school of sociology, but his role is neglected. He was one of the first critics of eugenics and was an active supporter of racial equality and mixing in Jim Crow America. He was a life-long associate of W.E.B. Du Bois and had a long-term association with Fisk University. He criticised assimilation (Americanization) as a goal of immigration policy and was an early advocate of multiculturalism. He was a critic of empire within Europe and of European empires globally and argued for the self-determination of subject minorities. He believed revolution against imperial domination to be necessary, but warned of new forms of oppression deriving from ethno-nationalist movements. His sociological arguments were integral to his involvement in civil society movements for racial justice, the formation of the Mid-European Union of subject peoples (through which he drafted the Czechoslovakian Declaration of Independence), support of Korean independence and the Indian satyagrahi movement of Mahatma Gandhi. Opposed by the Ku Klux Klan, he was dismissed by Ohio State University for his political activities in 1932.

This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards.

How did ordinary men and women dress in the early modern period?Did they rely on cost-effective alternatives to the silks, jewellery, and ornate decorations favoured by the wealthy elite? Or did those with modest means find innovative ways to express their fashion sense? Refashioning the Renaissance provides new perspectives on early modern clothing by investigating the meaning of fashion among the 'popular' classes. Combining archival and pictorial evidence, historical reconstruction, hands-on experimentation, and scientific textile analysis, the book explores how men and women of artisan rank created a fashionable look and adapted to the evolving dynamics of the day. Offering a close examination of the materials, craftmanship, and cultural significance of both new and traditional fashion itemsavailable to a broad group of consumers, Refashioning the Renaissancechallenges conventional assumptions that suggest the everyday dress of ordinary early modern families was limited to a narrow selection of garments made of coarse textiles, often produced at home and resistant to change.

This book reexamines slave trading in the early Middle Ages from a comparative perspective, situating it at the core of economic and political development in northern and eastern Europe. In focusing on the 'slaving zones' centred around the British Isles and the Czech lands, Fontaine traces the forced migration of enslaved people from the point of capture to their destinations across Europe, the North Atlantic, North Africa, and western Asia. The crux of the book are the changes of the ninth and tenth centuries prompted by increased demand, principally in the Islamic world as well as areas of Viking settlement. The desire to source more and more slaves led to changes in the practice of warfare to maximise captive taking, the logistics of slave trading and rulers' legal and economic relationships with slavery. By spanning the seventh through the eleventh centuries, this important study traces the growth, climax, and decline of slave trading in the early Middle Ages and establishes its role as a driver of connectivity.

Italy is synonymous with fashion. Fashion is one of the country's leading exports, and Italian brands are recognised and coveted across the world. But this was not always the case. Traditional accounts of the ascent of Italian fashion begin in 1951, when Giovanni Battista Giorgini hosted the first Italian High Fashion Show at his home in Florence. Becoming couture offers a compelling counter-narrative. Tracing continuities between the Fascist period and the First Republic, the book reveals the links between the private companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations that worked to promote the international launch of Italian fashion. It also examines the impact of the Second World War on fashion intermediaries, showing that the experience gained from 'silent' assignments during the conflict improved their performance in peacetime. Identifying the years 1944 to 1953 as the decisive period for the strengthening of the Italian fashion offer, Becoming couture sheds light on the challenges of reconstructing Italy, both physically and in terms of image. At the same time, it tells the story of a creative industry finally achieving recognition in the international market.

With increasing international attention directed northwards, the status of the eight Arctic states have taken on added geopolitical importance. However, a formal title is one thing, political practice and feelings of attachment is another. This book sets out to answer whether there is such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and specifically what this might mean for state personnel. It focuses on three of the eight Arctic states, where identity has been frequently talked about by political leaders: Norway, Iceland, and Canada. By focusing on three diverse cases of Arctic state identity, the book charts similarities and differences across state contexts. As soon becomes clear, there is no singular Arctic state identity, but rather numerous relational articulations of what it means to represent and 'be' Arctic. These identities are narrated as both geographical and historical, yet the ways in which they come to matter are always social, political, and cultural. The book offers a new perspective and powerful insights from 'inside' the state in a time when Arctic geopolitics is high on the agenda. And more broadly, it presents a 'peopled' understanding of geopolitics, charting the rich stories, experiences, and thoughtful reflections of state personnel. Introducing the original concept and framework of 'state identity', the book brings together views of statehood and national identity, showing the human side of representing a state.

In the decades following the Second World War, youthful sociability was remade as young people across Britain flocked to newly-opened coffee bars, beat clubs, and discos, drawn to their dark corners, crowded dance floors, and loud music. These spaces, increasingly unknown and unfamiliar to the adults who passed by them, played a remarkable role in reshaping town and city centres after dark as sites of leisure and recreation. Growing up and going out is a book about sociability, leisure, and youth culture in post-war Britain, and demonstrates how young people's experience of commercial youth leisure was increasingly characterised by its spatial and temporal separation from the wider urban leisurescape. Telling the history of youth in post-war Britain from the ground up, through the towns and cities that young people moved though, this book traces how the new spaces of post-war youth leisure transformed both young people's relationship with their local environment and adults' perceptions of the possibilities and dangers of modern leisure Using an extensive range of sources, from oral histories, to licensing documents, government records, and newspapers, this book demonstrates the importance of taking popular youth cultures seriously. Exploring the making and meaning of youth leisure, Growing up and going out offers a timely reassessment of young lives in the second half of the twentieth century that will be essential reading to scholars of youth, modern Britain, and popular culture.

This Malone Society edition of Barnabe Barnes's The Devil's Charter (1607) is intended to supplement the important edition, published in 1904, of the play by R.B. McKerrow, the great editor of the works of Thomas Nashe. The new edition is based on a fresh examination of the twenty-three known copies of the quarto, which exhibit marked differences in relation to stop-press correction. The Introduction considers the play's printing history, its date and authorship, its performance, and later history. Particular attention is paid to the possibility that Robert Armin had a hand in several scenes in the play and to how Barnes's play may have come to be acted before King James I. Barnes is shown to have been familiar with Shakespeare's plays and, in particular, to have borrowed elements from Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and All's Well that Ends Well.

This volume presents a modernised edition of Christopher Marlowe's critical engagement with one of the bloodiest and traumatic episodes of the French Wars of Religion, the wholesale massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in August, 1572. Sensorily shocking and intellectually gripping, the play's dramatic action spans a tumultuous two decades in French history to unfold for its audience the tragic consequences of religious fanaticism, power politics, and dynastic rivalry. Comprehensively introduced and containing full commentary notes, this edition opens up this frequently neglected but historically significant and dramatically powerful play to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the history of the massacre, the play's treatment of its sources, the play's dramatisation of trauma, and the play's exploration of notions of religious toleration. Its notes record the text's full collation with all extant early editions and major modern editions. Its commentary notes clarify the meaning of the text and aspects of its staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of early modern French history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. An appendix reproduces a modernised and annotated version of the Collier Leaf, a fragment from a fuller but now lost version of the play. This Revels edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Marlowe's powerful and provocative drama.

This book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage, family, kinship and gender, it challenges assumptions about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to elite culture. -- .