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The International Arms Trade
Reconfiguration of the Defence-Industrial Landscape
KENNETH BOUTIN
A major original contribution in situating international arms transfers in defence–industrial processes.
Breaks new ground in examining the role of emerging arms suppliers.
Provides important insights into the evolving international arms-transfer system and efforts to manage the conventional arms trade.
This volume provides an analytical framework for the international armstransfer system and offers important insights into that system as it is being transformed by the development of the defence–industrial landscape. Breaking new ground by situating international arms transfers within the reconfiguration of the global defence–industrial landscape, the book demonstrates the coevolving nature of arms transfer and defence–industrial processes.
Understanding how the arms-transfer system is evolving is crucial due to its impact on the proliferation of conventional arms and on efforts to control the arms trade. Emerging arms-supplier states are undermining the established hierarchy of the international arms-transfer system. The importance of the international arms trade is demonstrated by its contribution to the defence of Ukraine and by ongoing concern over the proliferation of advanced arms to rogue states, a trend in which emerging supplier states feature prominently.
This volume is intended for those with a professional or research interest in international security and strategic studies, either in general or in terms of the international arms trade, arms-trade control, or defence development issues.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Kenneth Boutin graduated with a PhD in Political Science from York University and served as Senior Arms Control and Disarmament Researcher at the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre. His research interests focus on the political economy of security.
PUBLICATION DATE 11 February 2025
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PAGES 304pp
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The Cornish Overseas
A
History of Cornwall's 'Great Emigration'
PHILIP PAYTON
A comprehensive, definitive picture of the Cornish diaspora.
Identifies some of the classic themes of Cornish emigration history, including Cornwallʼs ʻemigration cultureʼ and ʻemigration tradeʼ.
Examines in detail the upsurge in Cornish emigration after 1815.
The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic, told here by one of the world's leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people. Accessible narrative includes the US, Canada, Australia, and S Africa. Fully revised and updated with almost two decades of additional research undertaken by historians worldwide.
PRAISE FOR THE CORNISH OVERSEAS
The Cornish Overseas is a splendidly panoramic survey of the global Cornish, and an important addition to emigration and mining history.
Professor Eric Richards, Emeritus Professor of History, Flinders University of South Australia
An excellent reference work, meticulously referenced and indexed. I can find no fault with it.
Peter Bell, Journal of Australasian Mining History
The most important book of its kind in half a century... It must take a premier place in breadth of research, in quality of presentation, and in the sheer magnetism and warmth of its readability.
Douglas Williams, West Briton
A huge undertaking, distilling wide-ranging research on a complex subject into an engaging and very readable volume packed with detail.
Lesley Trotter, The Local Historian
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.
PUBLICATION DATE
18 February 2025
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The Boggart
Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect
SIMON YOUNG
An entertaining and eye-opening account of a mercurial and mysterious supernatural being.
Showcases a radical approach to folk history, using social media and recent advances in digitization.
Offers a corrective and nuanced re-reading of an important figure in British folklore.
Honourable mention for The American Folklore Society's Wayland D. Hand Prize for outstanding book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials.
Runner up for The Folklore Society's 2022 Katherine Briggs Award for most distinguished contribution to folklore studies.
The little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. Using long-forgotten sources as well as social media surveys and personal interviews, this ground-breaking book reveals that almost everything we thought we knew about the boggart is wrong.
PRAISE FOR THE BOGGART
Detailed, scholarly, packed with great tales and interesting speculations, The Boggart is a groundbreaking study that rescues and re-establishes the scary boggart of the 19th century.
Katherine Langrish, Gramarye
The Boggart is well written, with light touches of humor that make this a compelling and enjoyable read. Given both this and the quality of the research underlying it, the book represents a stellar study of British popular belief that should be seen as an exemplar for future works on similar topics.
Ethan Doyle White, Reading Religion
The range of Young’s research is impressive, and his inclusion of intriguing images and maps adds to the book’s impact. For scholars who are interested in writing books about the development of a particular supernatural figure, this study offers a valuable model.
Elizabeth Tucker, Journal of Folklore Research Reviews
This is meticulously and reflectively researched, with rigorous academic argumentation, yet also eminently readable... A delight in every way.
Katharine Briggs Award Panel
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Simon Young is a British folklore historian, based in Italy. In 2017 he edited Magical Folk (2017) with Ceri Houlbrook, and has published dozens of peerreviewed articles in Folk Life, Folklore, Gramarye, Supernatural Studies, Tradition Today and other journals.
PUBLICATION DATE
01 April 2025
PUBLISHER University of Exeter Press
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330pp
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Theatre and Politics in Postconflict Northern Ireland
Applied Theatre, Social Change, and Political Advocacy
DÓNALL MAC CATHMHAOILL
Offers a chronological conspectus of theatre in postconflict northern Ireland, examining the ways in which theatre was used to promote peace and reconciliation. Shows how applied and community theatre can be critically important in transforming communities affected by conflict.
Presents the most complete history of theatre with communities in northern Ireland, covering the traditional unionist and nationalist groupings, but also the works of the LGBTQ+ community, migrant and global majority communities, and works of theatre for social change.
Theatre has played an important role in post-conflict northern Ireland, where it has been used by artists, communities, and organisations as a tool for political advocacy.
This book provides an up-to-date assessment of the state of theatre in northern Ireland since the end of the conflict, across a period of complete transformation, from entrenched civil conflict to relative peace and prosperity. With a focus on applied theatre and works that use theatre as advocacy, the book investigates the ways the main communities in the region have used theatre to promote their agendas, combat prejudice, and deal with legacy issues of the conflict. It also explores the emergence of new theatres that reflect social and demographic changes in the post-conflict period, including theatre with migrants and minorities, LGBTQ and Irish language theatre. In doing so, it examines the crucial role that theatre (and by extension, arts) can play in processes of reconciliation.
The book will prove valuable to students and academics in the fields of applied theatre, conflict studies, and arts for reconciliation. It will appeal also to the general reader with an interest in northern Irish politics and culture.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Open University. He has worked as a writer, director, designer, and producer in theatre for almost thirty years, including collaborations with many of the leading northern Irish companies. He was a director at the main independent producer, Tinderbox Theatre Company, and served on the boards of both Aisling Ghéar and Sole Purpose theatre companies. Previously he was a producer and Head of Education at Soho Theatre in London.
PUBLICATION DATE
08 April 2025
PUBLISHER
University of Exeter Press
FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE Hbk | 9781804131138 |
SIZE
234 x 156 mm
PAGES 240pp
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Exeter Performance Studies
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Miniatures
A Reader in the History of Everyday Life
KATE FERRIS, HUW HALSTEAD
The first book of its kind to bring to readers the diverse source base of everyday life history research across the globe.
Adopts a novel approach to the documentary reader, prioritising rich, detailed, and textured explorations of micro-scale situations and practices accompanied by expert analysis.
Demonstrates the appeal, fascination, and potential of everyday life history.
This book is the first of its kind to present readers with the rich and innovative source base deployed by scholars studying everyday life in the modern era. Twenty-eight researchers from diverse intellectual and disciplinary standpoints each present a favourite primary source for studying the history of everyday life, accompanied by a reflective commentary on the benefits, challenges, and potential pitfalls of using their chosen material.
The sources included range from ego documents (diaries, memoirs, letters), oral testimonies, ethnographic fieldnotes, newspapers, magazines, and official documents to photographs, film, maps, floor plans, drawings, material objects, and instant messages. They cover topics and themes as varied as individual mentalities, emotions, identities, sense of place, sexuality, and agency; experiences of space, violence, war, childhood, humour, the body, and the senses; and the history of nationalism, diplomacy, political activism, youth culture, tourism, memory, dictatorship, colonialism, and race and racism.
This book demonstrates not only the texture and fascination of people’s everyday lives, but also what a critical reading of this microscale can reveal about the broader sweep of history. It will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students alike interested in everyday life, in micro- and localscales of analysis, and in the study of history and society ‘from below’.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Kate Ferris is Professor in Modern European History at the University of St Andrews. She researches modern Italy and Spain with an emphasis on everyday life history and questions of agency, practice, subjectivity, and space. She leads the ERC-funded project, ‘Dictatorship as experience: a comparative history of everyday life and the “lived experience” of dictatorship in Mediterranean Europe, 1922–1975’.
Huw Halstead is Lecturer in Public History in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on memory, public history, and everyday life, with a particular interest in the contemporary Mediterranean world.
PUBLICATION DATE
15 April 2025
PUBLISHER
University of Exeter Press
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Defence Diplomacy and Security Cooperation in Southeast Asia
Managing Smaller Powersʼ Strategic Space
OLLI PEKKA SUORSA
The first book-length exploration of defence diplomacy with Southeast Asia at the pivot point.
Advances an adapted theory of omnidirectional hedging, which helps expand smaller statesʼ strategic options.
Demonstrates smaller powersʼ ability to manage strategic space in the cross-tides of growing major power competition in the Indo-Pacific.
Defence diplomacy is an increasingly important tool for strategic engagement used by states in Southeast Asia. This approach underpins simultaneous cooperation and competition in the contemporary Indo-Pacific region amid major power rivalries and growing activity in Southeast Asia and the South China Sea.
The rise of China and the intensifying Sino–US competition has caught Southeast Asia at a geostrategic pivot where smaller states’ strategic autonomy is increasingly difficult to manage. To address uncertainty in contemporary international relations, Southeast Asian states tend to hedge omnidirectionally. This helps them to avoid entrapment, abandonment, and over-dependence on any one major power. Such an adaptive combination of bilateral, multilateral, and minilateral defence diplomacy and security cooperation allows these states to diversify their relations with several bigger powers, avoiding direct involvement of outside powers in Southeast Asian affairs while delaying having to choose sides between China and the United States.
This is the first book-length coverage of defence diplomacy in Southeast Asia and an important update on previous studies. It bridges a gap in the literature by linking defence diplomacy to a broader theoretical framework of alignment behaviour, and offers much-needed look into smaller powers’ manoeuvring between major powers. This volume will be of interest to academics and policymakers alike, providing fresh perspectives and ideas for civilian and military decisionmakers and practitioners. More broadly, it will attract those seeking to better understand the military’s role in foreign and security policy.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Olli Pekka Suorsa is an Assistant Professor at Rabdan Academy in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Before joining Rabdan, Olli worked in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand. He obtained his PhD from the City University of Hong Kong, MSc from the SOAS, University of London, and BA from Tallinn Technological University in Estonia.
PUBLICATION DATE
13 May 2025
PUBLISHER
University of Exeter Press
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234 x 156 mm
PAGES
272pp
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Exeter Strategic & Security Studies
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Western Military Expatriates in the Armed Forces of the UAE
History and Impact, 1965–2024
ATHOL YATES
A comprehensive profile of Western military professionals embedded in a foreign military and how they have helped to generate a sustained military advantage for their host.
Adapting the theory of the Resource-Based View (RBV) for the first time to a military context to examine the link between an organizationʼs personnel and its sustainable competitive advantage.
Provides a detailed history of how and where the UAE has used Western expatriates.
Today, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces is recognised as the most proficient military set-up in the Arab world, recently engaged in operations in Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen, and in the fight against ISIS. This book examines a pivotal component in how the UAE built such effectiveness: Western military professionals embedded in the Emirati forces. Some of these expatriates have commanded major military formations, others served as high-ranking staff, piloted front-line aircraft, developed and delivered training, or advised senior Emirati officers.
The first such individuals arrived in 1965, when they were engaged to establish the state’s initial professional military force. Expatriates have since served continuously to the present day. This volume traces their history through 14 case studies, covering the period between 1965 and 2023. It offers a comprehensive picture of the expatriates’ backgrounds, the rationale behind their recruitment, and how they have been utilized. This information provides the foundation for the book’s key research question: to what degree and how have such individuals helped to generate a sustained military advantage for the Emirati military?
The implications arising from this study are important, particularly for the UAE as it contemplates the potential replacement or phasing out of Western expatriates. They are equally consequential for Western defence policy-makers seeking innovative ways to develop the capabilities of friendly advanced nations, and for the more than a thousand expatriates currently serving in the Gulf who aspire to increase their influence.
EDITOR BIOGRAPHY
Athol Yates heads the Institute for International and Civil Security at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi. His research focuses on the UAE’s internal security and national security policy, military history, and defence industry. He is the author of books on the history of the UAE security forces, including Evolution of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates and The Military and Police Forces of the Trucial States and United Arab Emirates 1951–1980.
PUBLICATION DATE 03 June 2025
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Tactical and Strategic Insights from the RussoUkrainian War
Western Security and Defence in the 21st Century
THOMAS-DURELL YOUNG, JAROSŁAW GRYZ
In-depth analysis of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, with a view towards presaging implications for Western defence planning.
Overarching analysis that spans assessments of operational fires to systematic breaches in international legal norms through to Russian targeting of civilian/cultural Ukrainian sites.
A diversity of contributors from various Eastern and Central European countries provides unique perspectives on the conflict.
This edited collection is the first volume to consider potential new insights afforded by the Russo-Ukrainian War that could be salient for Western defence officials and planners. The contributors reflect on what are likely to be important issues that need to be addressed in order to ensure that Western armed forces are capable of deterring Russia. Closely examining how the war is being fought throughout the battlespace, the chapters avoid falling into the trap of making determinative statements about which developments might be trendsetters or are ‘new’ aspects of modern war. Rather, and given that this conflict apparently is far from over, the contributors eschew determinism and instead offer open-ended and clear-eyed analysis of what is playing out on the ground.
Individual chapters address the following lines of analysis, among others, arising from the war:
-Russian thinking on warfare and how it has been misunderstood by many in the West, as well as judging Russian military performance as simply being represented in numerical results.
-Manoeuvre, and the growing importance of urban areas in land warfare.
-Developments in the delivery of kinetic force (land, air, maritime and cyber) and operational fires.
EDITOR BIOGRAPHY
Thomas-Durell Young is Senior Academic Advisor to the President of Defense Security Cooperation University, Washington, DC. He has advised defence reform programs in Central and Eastern Europe for 25 years and is author of many works on defence planning and management. He is editor of the journal Defense & Security Analysis.
Jarosław Gryz is Vice-Rector of Student Affairs and Quality of Education at the War Studies Academy, Warsaw, Poland. He received his PhD from the University of Warsaw and is a Full Professor in the Faculty of National Security, Institute of Strategic Studies.
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PUBLICATION DATE
17 June 2025
PUBLISHER
University of Exeter Press
FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE Hbk | 9781804131558 | £90.00 | $126.00 eBook available
A unique and comprehensive source of information about one of the key pioneers of British cinema.
Offers a detailed and compelling portrait of Birt Acres, his mysterious origins, contradictory character and numerous innovations.
Richly illustrated with a host of little-seen images, while offering a new and exhaustive filmography.
Apparently from Virginia, Birt Acres appeared out of nowhere in Britain aged 35, without a trace of his former life. Yet immediately he became a prominent figure in the late Victorian photographic world. He soon teamed up with Robert Paul to make a moving picture camera and then shot the first commercial films in Britain in spring 1895, in parallel with the work of the Lumière brothers in France, before repeating this in Germany. His innovations included being the first to establish a dedicated venue for watching films, to give a Royal Command Performance of moving pictures, to create screen advertising, and to design a home movie camera.
A disdain for showbusiness led to Acres squandering the commercial opportunities he created, and initiated the erasure of his remarkable story. From early in the twentieth century, film historians have consistently underestimated and undervalued his achievements.
In this book, for the first time, we see a detailed and compelling portrait of Birt Acres, with substantial new research on his early work in moving pictures and on the careers of his associates, leading directly to new interpretations of the importance of this elusive pioneer. It draws on a wealth of fresh sources, with a massively expanded filmography supporting this re-evaluation. Written by three specialists in early film history, this volume significantly revises the received story of Birt Acres, at the same time casting new light on the beginnings of cinema in Britain.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Barry Anthony has written extensively about social history, particularly entertainment. His books include the ground-breaking A Victorian Film Enterprise and The Kinetoscope: A British History (both with Richard Brown) and Chaplin’s Music Hall.
Peter Domankiewicz has worked professionally in film and television for decades as a screenwriter, director and producer. He has written about early film history for The Guardian and Sight and Sound, also contributing to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema and several academic journals.
Deac Rossell is a historian of early cinema, magic lantern culture and chronophotography. His books include Living Pictures, Faszination der Bewegung, Laterna Magica – Magic Lantern, and Chronology of the Birth of Cinema 1833–1896
PUBLICATION DATE
24 June 2025
PUBLISHER
University of Exeter Press
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234 x 156 mm
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256pp
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Exeter Studies in Film History
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The Screen Censorship Companion
Critical Explorations in the Control of Film and Screen Media
DANIEL BILTEREYST, ERNEST MATHIJS
An exhaustive coverage of censorship as it manifests across the world and throughout film history. The international assembly of contributors offer perspective from as far afield as Argentina and Japan.
Packed with new and exclusive research data.
Throughout the history of film, censorship has existed everywhere—in all shapes, colours, and dimensions. The act of restricting the free production, circulation, screening, and consumption of movies was never unique to authoritarian regimes. Censorship has had far-reaching implications for filmmakers, distributors, exhibitors, and audiences across generations and across genres, including the self-censorship of audiences disciplined into particular viewership positions. Today, soft and hard censorship coexist in ever-more fluid forms; the banning, regulating, trimming, and tailoring of films for ‘harmless’ consumption all exemplify wider debates about access to media.
This companion brings together contemporary and historical views on censorship, covering Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The book considers Hollywood’s practices and the United States’ legislative context as important frames of reference for the study of filmed entertainment censorship, be they concerned with obscene materials or plain mainstream movie fare. American cinema remains a wider compass, as evidenced by how studies in this companion, which deal with local and regional censorship, appear to have American movies as their targets.
This volume showcases the broad international scope of censorship through detailed examinations of censorship practices. The diversity of case studies is an indication of the global reach of censorship—nothing can escape its grasp. Ultimately, the censorship of screen access is a struggle for power and control; this book demonstrates how intense this struggle can become, and how compromises and solutions are found.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Daniel Biltereyst is Professor in Film and Media Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the (co-)editor of several volumes on cinema audiences and censorship. In 2020 he published a monograph on the history of film/cinema censorship in Belgium, Verboden Beelden, and made a documentary with Bruno Mestdagh on film cuttings (Ongezien/invisible, 2020, Cinematek).
Ernest Mathijs is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He has written on cult cinema, the reception of Canadian and European genre cinema, The Lord of the Rings, reality-TV, Thomas Pynchon, and on Delphine Seyrig. In 2020 he co-wrote the two-part documentary The Quiet Revolution
PUBLICATION DATE
26 November 2024
PUBLISHER
University of Exeter Press
FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE Hbk | 9781804130667 | £95.00 | $134.00 eBook available
SIZE
234 x 156 mm
PAGES
410pp
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Exeter Studies in Film History
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John Hamrickʼs Blue Mouse Cinemas
Independent Exhibition and Influence in the Studio Era
MICHAEL ARONSON
Fills a strong need for American film history from a regional perspective, mirroring the industryʼs own institutional framework in the era.
Reveals the unexplored role and influence of American indie small-chain movie exhibitors.
Extensive study of regional trade journals brings much new information to light.
A unique, in-depth case study of regional independent film exhibition in the Pacific Northwest. This book helps us understand the unexplored role and influence of American indie small-chain exhibitors during the height of the studio era.
PRAISE FOR JOHN HAMRICKʼS BLUE MOUSE CINEMAS
This richly detailed study charts Hamrick’s economic, technological and cultural manoeuvres during times of tumultuous change. Aronson’s analysis models a regional approach to moviegoing history, and positions us to consider how continual changes will impact the future of independent theaters.
Kathy Fuller-Seeley, William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Media History, University of Texas
John Hamrick's Blue Mouse Cinemas is as engaging to read as it is accomplished in its historical research. By meticulously tracking and convincingly contextualizing the life and business practices of a single independent exhibitor/showman, Michael Aronson makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of American commercial cinema in the 1920s.
Gregory Waller, Provost Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Indiana University
A landmark volume. In a book that weaves together infographics, archival records, and compelling prose, Michael Aronson has expanded the map for studies of movie exhibition. His analysis of Hamrick—a savvy and unsavory entrepreneur—presents a fascinating case study with broad implications for U.S. film history.
Eric Hoyt, Kahl Family Professor of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Michael Aronson is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. The author of Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies, 1905–1929, his research focuses on the history of American exhibition and moviegoing culture and has appeared in journals including The Moving Image, Film History and Cinema Journal
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PUBLICATION DATE
29 October 2024
PUBLISHER
University of Exeter Press FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE Hbk | 9781804131398 | £90.00 | $126.00 eBook available
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234 x 156 mm
PAGES
238pp
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Exeter Studies in Film History
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Alternative Cornwalls
Literature and the Invention of Place
GEMMA GOODMAN
A fresh look at literary embodiments of Cornwall. Identifies alternative lost or hidden literary versions of Cornwall, and their relationship to the dominant, touristfriendly conception of Cornwall.
Positions Cornish literature as a body of work in its own right and as part of a wider context of British literature and literary studies.
This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature. It offers new readings of familiar texts, and re-inserts little-known textual versions of Cornwall alongside those that have predominated. All of the alternative versions of place discussed in this book complicate more familiar tourist-friendly imaginings of Cornwall.
PRAISE FOR ALTERNATIVE CORNWALLS
Alternative Cornwalls offers a compelling study of Cornwall in the literary imagination. Goodman maps a rich terrain, traversing across moors and mines, from country to city, out to the coastal edges and into less familiar interiors. A wealth of literary sources are brought together through nuanced and perceptive readings, lending intricate insight and enriching new perspectives into the many versions and visions of Cornwall to be found in literature.
Dr Charlotte Mathieson, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, University of Surrey
Goodman takes a fresh, nuanced look at the rich multiplicity of Cornwall beyond the romanticised holiday version familiar to visitors: it takes in moors as well as mines, the clay industry as well as coastal cliff scenery. In addition to bringing submerged versions of Cornwall to the surface Alternative Cornwalls impressively spans a wonderful range of authors and genres from the 1850s to the present, from Victorian classics to lesser-known regional mining novels and from bestselling crime, mystery and spy fiction to novels that engage with the fraught environmental and psychological edges of living on the Cornish peninsula.
Professor Shelley Trower, author of Rocks of Nation
While Alternative Cornwalls builds on existing ideas in Cornish studies, it takes the discipline in new directions with its specialist analysis of recent literature. It's a huge contribution.
Professor Philip Payton, author of Cornwall: A History
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Gemma Goodman holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Warwick. She returned home to Cornwall in 2016 and continues her research on the literature of Cornwall, alongside work as a researcher on academic projects and a project manager for cultural and heritage projects.
PUBLICATION DATE
22 October 2024
PUBLISHER
University of Exeter Press
FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE Hbk | 9781804130636 |
SIZE 234 x 156 mm
PAGES 244pp
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Paganism Persisting
A History of European Paganisms since Antiquity
ROBIN DOUGLAS, FRANCIS YOUNG
The first modern academic history of paganism, from antiquity to the twentieth century.
Critiques the existing idea of paganism ʻsurvivingʼ beyond antiquity and proposes a renewed historiography emphasising revivals of paganism.
Ranges widely over a variety of European cultures.
Paganism in Europe was not defeated by Christianity: it never went away. From the fourth century to the twentieth, against the background of a largely Christian culture, people repeatedly attempted to revive various kinds of preChristian religion – beliefs and practices that we have come to label as ‘paganism’.
Ancient paganism did not survive the Middle Ages in its original form; this book tells the story of the persistence of elements of paganism and the pagan idea through Europe’s pagan revivals, from Byzantine Greece to medieval Eastern Europe and Renaissance Florence, from eighteenth-century Norwich to revolutionary Paris and Edwardian England. While some of these revivals are well known and others are almost entirely forgotten, they reveal the rich diversity of interpretations of paganism – and how those interpretations have been conditioned by the surrounding culture.
Revived paganisms ranged from the austerely rational to the earnestly romantic, from the mystical and occult to the stridently nationalistic. Paganism Persisting reveals European paganism’s long afterlife, up to and including the emergence of modern paganism as a mass movement in the twentieth century. The authors are both historians of religion specializing, respectively, in the intellectual history of the idea of paganism and in the development of popular religion and folklore. This book has much to offer to anyone interested in European cultural history, the history of ideas and religious studies.
PRAISE FOR PAGANISM PERSISTING
Paganism Persisting is written in an admirably lucid and accessible style that will be attractive to general readers while the subject matter also makes it important to scholars. It is based on a thorough reading of the relevant secondary sources, with a regular leavening of primary material, which is a balance and mixture appropriate to a survey volume of this sort.
Prof. Ronald Hutton, author of Pagan Britain
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Robin Douglas is a writer and researcher based in London. His work is on the history of esoteric and pagan religious traditions from antiquity to the present day.
Francis Young teaches for Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education and is the author or editor of over 20 books in the fields of the history of religion and folklore. UK, EUROPE & ROW
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PUBLICATION DATE
08 October 2024
PUBLISHER University of Exeter Press
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Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief
The first major collection of Devonshire folklore for nearly half a century, brought up to date with an examination of internet lore and modern tales.
Unlocks the vital collections of material held in the Devonshire Association archives and provides new analysis and broader comparison with folklore traditions. Offers new insights into oft-quoted folklore tales of Devon.
Devon has a long and rich folkloric heritage which has been extensively collected over many years, but never before drawn together into one serious study. This book consolidates more than a century of research by eminent Devon folklorists into one valuable volume.
PRAISE FOR THE FOLKLORE OF DEVON
Mark Norman is the perfect guide through the pixy-paths of Devon tradition. A teller of good tales with a good understanding of folklore both ancient and modern, he is a worthy successor to the greats – Anna Bray, Theo Brown and Baring-Gould.
Jeremy Harte, author of Explore Fairy Traditions and Cloven Country
A uniquely rich and entertaining exploration of Devon's rich folklore. From local rituals to Black Dogs, Witch and ghosts to the rich oral histories of heritage sites The Folklore of Devon explores the land, its stories and their context.
David Waldron, Senior Lecturer in History at Federation University Australia and author of Sign of the Witch
In the period 1850 to 1950 important efforts were made in Devon to collect local folklore: arguably with more science and nouse than in any other English county. Until now, though, we have lacked an effective overview. With The Folklore of Devon Mark Norman has filled an important gap in the bookshelf of British folklore studies.
Simon Young, author of The Boggart
An entertaining and comprehensive exploration of Devon folklore. Norman takes the old “county folklore” model into new times and territories and displays his wealth of knowledge. Rich in source material, engagingly written, and with delightful illustrations, The Folklore of Devon is a pleasure to read. Owen Davies, author of Grimoires and The Oxford History of Witchcraft and Magic
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Mark Norman was recently appointed as the new Recorder of Folklore for the Devonshire Association, and is well known as a popular folklorist around the world thanks to his creation, The Folklore Podcast, which has enjoyed more than 1.5 million downloads. He is a council member of the Folklore Society and founding curator of The Folklore Library and Archive. The Folklore of Devon is Mark’s fourth book.
Landscape, Folklore and the Supernatural JEREMY HARTE
A discovery of eerie true stories and a survey of haunted places that shed new light on medieval life.
A unique collection and analysis of supernatural placenames.
A recovery of suppressed vernacular voices from the literate Latin tradition.
Strange tales from many medieval genres prove that experience, not fiction, underlay fairy beliefs. Supernatural beings took on similar forms whether they were supposed to be ghosts or goblins, saints or demons. First-person oral testimony is backed up by place-names which show how wells, pools and hills were known locally as haunted locations.
PRAISE FOR FAIRY ENCOUNTERS IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
A significant and original contribution to the field, further enhanced by the constant liveliness, erudition and humour of Jeremy's writing.
Prof. Ronald Hutton, author of Pagan Britain and The Witch
In Fairy Encounters in Medieval England, Jeremy Harte brings a wealth of sources to the reader to delve into the elusive nature of supernatural beings in his usual insightful and engaging style. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in medieval folklore and a testament to Harte's unique ability to bring sources to life for a modern audience.
Dee Dee Chainey, author of A Treasury of British Folklore
Fairy Encounters in Medieval England is both academically rigorous and an enchanting read, written with wit and grace. Short of travelling back in time, if you want to know more about the dangerous ‘fairies’ of medieval England, you cannot do better than read this book.
Katherine Langrish, author of Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
Harte’s latest work combines scholarship with wry, spine-tingling storytelling. It is useful, compelling, challenging and playful. It makes you pull faces of horror and mirth. I’m going to read this book three times, then keep it within arm’s reach of my desk.
Amy Jeffs, art historian and author of Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Jeremy Harte is inspired by landscape and the otherworldly. His book Explore Fairy Traditions won the Briggs award, followed by Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape. Serving on the Council of the Folklore Society, he organises their Legendary Weekends. He is curator of Bourne Hall Museum in Surrey.
PUBLICATION DATE 03 September 2024
PUBLISHER
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The first comprehensive academic study of a famous, very curious, and immensely influential but little understood medieval legend.
Close analysis of particular elements of the story and their possible significance in a medieval context—for example: the colour green, the eating of beans, otherworlds, taboos, liminality, and rites of passage.
Offers a critical consideration of the ways in which a puzzling event can be misunderstood, misinterpreted, and manipulated.
This book introduces the story of the ‘Green Children’ and how it has been interpreted, retold, and reworked. Analysing the two accounts, and offering fresh translations from the Latin originals, it considers what the historians tell us happened, and then the children’s own story of their homeland.
PRAISE FOR THE GREEN CHILDREN OF WOOLPIT
Thorough, fair-minded and genuinely wise, John Clark's detective work shows just how and why the mysterious folk-legend of the green children has attracted and inspired such wide attention, including that from folklorists, rationalisers and artists.
Kevin Crossley-Holland, author and poet
A magisterial, authoritative and, above all, sensibly judicious account of the Green Children of Woolpit, this book moves deftly between the medieval and the modern, sources and reception.
Carolyne Larrington, Emerita Professor of medieval European literature, University of Oxford
An outstandingly detailed, perceptive and wide-ranging study of an endlessly fascinating tale that will become the authoritative study of the subject, and is also compellingly readable.
Francis Young, historian and Suffolk folklorist
This is an admirably thoughtful, wide-ranging and persuasive considerationthe best yet - of one of England's most famous medieval legends.
Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, University of Bristol
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
John Clark was for many years curator of the medieval collections at the Museum of London. Since retiring in 2009, he has continued research, lecturing and writing on topics including the history and archaeology of medieval London, medieval folklore and legends and their relationship to ‘real’ history, and medieval horses and horse equipment.
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PUBLICATION DATE 13 August 2024
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The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and other Social Supernatural Beings
European Traditions
SIMON YOUNG, DAVIDE ERMACORA
The first Europe-wide guide to social supernatural beings. Pioneers the notion of the social supernatural, after a generation in which this idea has been neglected. A new model of Europe-wide folklore studies with specialists from different traditions.
For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel world of the ‘social supernatural’. The social supernatural realm mirrored and interacted with our own, causing disasters and providing fertility. Bringing together eighteen experts, this book explores how diverse cultures across Europe envisioned their social supernatural neighbours.
PRAISE FOR THE EXETER COMPANION TO FAIRIES, NEREIDS, TROLLS AND OTHER SOCIAL SUPERNATURAL BEINGS
This heady brew of fourteen studies of “the social supernatural” from all across Europe (in a cauldron stirred by two skilled editors) promises to become a standard reference work for anthropologists, folklorists, and cultural historians seeking to expose the darker strata underlying the prettified fairies that Disney has foisted on us.
Richard Firth Green, Academy Professor, The Ohio State University
Here is an exquisite volume of rigorous, engaging essays that provides a wealth of evidence for broad reassessments of the social supernatural. Timothy R. Tangherlini, Professor of Scandinavian Folklore, University of California, Berkeley
This is the finest collection of information yet assembled upon European supernatural beings who form societies. It is not only a notable advance in scholarship, but an exciting and entertaining journey for any interested reader.
Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, University of Bristol
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Simon Young, ‘the foremost chronicler of Britain’s fairies’, teaches at the University of California (Accent), Florence. He has published The Boggart (2023) with UEP and The Nail in the Skull and other Victorian Urban Legends with Mississippi, which was awarded the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award.
Davide Ermacora earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Turin, Italy, and at Lumière University Lyon 2 in France. His research interests include the history of religions, supernatural belief systems, and traditional and contemporary legends.
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PUBLICATION DATE
16 July 2024
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The Yemeni Civil War
The Arab Spring, State formation and internal instability
ELHAM MANEA
An original theoretical framework to understand the political instability that followed the Arab Uprisings.
Detailed analysis focused on Yemen, but also considers Syria, Libya and Bahrain.
Based on original archival research and more than 100 interviews with all parties in the Yemeni Civil War and with other regional actors.
Presents an innovative theoretical framework to understand the meltdown and civil wars of countries such as Yemen, Syria, and Libya after their 2011 uprisings, using Yemen as a case study. The interaction between different types of state formation and regional rivalry can explain what happened.
PRAISE FOR THE YEMENI CIVIL WAR
The importance of this book lies not only in the fact that it introduces a comprehensive analysis of the dilemma of instability in Yemen, but also because of its theoretical framework that is pertinent to understanding Arab internal politics in general, especially after the "Arab spring". In fact, Dr. Elham Manea has excelled in grasping all the key factors needed to understand Yemeni politics, let alone her ability to underline their relative weights, forecasting different scenarios of the Yemeni future. I believe that reading her distinguished work is an indispensable and serious attempt for finding a lasting settlement in Yemen.
Ahmad Yousef Ahmad, Professor of Political Science, Cairo University
This is a compelling analysis of Yemen’s ongoing struggles. Elham Manea’s book offers innovative insights that make it an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of Yemen and the region.
Dr Marieke Brandt, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Professor Manea’s new book is truly excellent. I don’t recall reading anything else in English on the subject of Yemen which has the same granularity, the same range of Arabic and specifically Yemeni sources - both written and oraland the same command of the social context. It’s about time Yemen spoke for itself: here it certainly does.
Sir John Jenkins, Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Elham Manea is a titular professor of political science at Zurich University. Her research focuses on regional politics of the Arabian Peninsula, fragile states in conflict zones in the MENA region, especially Yemen, women under Muslim laws, and political Islam. She is of dual nationalities, Yemeni and Swiss.
PUBLICATION DATE 09 July 2024
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Screening Europe in Australasia
Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood
JULIE K. ALLEN
Ground-breaking use of digitized Australian and New Zealand newspapers to reconstruct the lost circulation history of silent films.
Exhaustive documentation of the distribution and exhibition of European silent feature films in the Antipodes.
Compelling biographical sketches of the ambitious pioneers of the Australasian cinema industry.
This book’s treatment of the extensive circulation of European silent features and stars in Australasia reveals the vibrant transnationalism of silent film before the rise of Hollywood, and frames the emergence of art house cinema in the 1920s.
PRAISE FOR SCREENING EUROPE IN AUSTRALASIA
The author's arguments and conclusions carefully and convincingly draw on wellselected historical sources: archival documentation and the daily Australasian press. Professor Emeritus Dr Martin Loiperdinger, University of Trier, Germany
A superb contribution to transnational cinema studies, specifically the history of film distribution, exhibition, and reception in the silent period. Allen’s book is a model of extensive original research (in several languages), an admirable series of topical chapters, a list of hundreds of imported European film titles, and an enviable, accessible writing style.
Professor Richard Abel, University of Michigan
Julie Allen has, with meticulous research, filled in the gaps to show how the social experience and entrepreneurial economy of cinema in Australasia has, from the outset, been diversly transnational. Screening Europe in Australasia reveals the manifold ways in which the introduction of cinema helped colonial Australia and New Zealand define a relationship to the world, to each other and to themselves. Allen shines an inquisitive lamp on the foundational sociopolitical drama of the film industry, illuminating its flamboyant cast of characters from a multitude of critical perspectives.
Professor Deb Verhoeven, University of Alberta
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Julie K. Allen is Professor of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University. She is the author of Icons of Danish Modernity: Georg Brandes & Asta Nielsen (2012) and Danish but Not Lutheran: The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850–1920 (2017), as well as numerous articles about European silent film, fairy tales, migration, and the construction of cultural identity.
Focus on womenʼs narratives offers many fresh insights into the lives of Gulf women.
Fills a major gap in research, busts myths and counters stereoptypes.
Breadth of expertise among contributors offers fruitful multidisciplinarity and broad appeal.
This edited volume investigates how Gulf women negotiate spaces of dissent through their writing. The focus on women’s narratives offers critical perspectives on how Gulf women construct themselves as gendered selves and authors, how they exist in public and private spaces, and how voice and agency are part of their conversations.
PRAISE FOR GULF WOMENʼS LIVES
Gulf Women’s Lives provides a genuine reflection of the ongoing feminist movements and feminist writings throughout the Gulf states, positioning itself as a credible reference in an area of study that is yet to receive full recognition. Amal Mohammed Al-Malki, Qatari feminist and scholar author of Arab Women in Arab News
This absorbing volume explores women's lives in the Gulf by elevating their voices, engaging public spaces, and traversing new places, both historical and liminal.
Kristin Smith Diwan, The Arab Gulf State Institute, Washington DC
The volume, carefully edited to astutely create echoes and resonances between chapters mixing literary and social science approaches, opens up multiple feminist conversations in and on the region. As such, Gulf Women’s Lives is also a most-welcome invitation to continue enlarging the polyphony.
Claire Beaugrand, University of Exeter
An exceptional volume with important insights into how women in the Gulf manage interactions with the state and employers; with husbands and families; and with broader society as producers and curators of creative work. A mustread for anyone who wants to understand more about Arab Gulf societies. Lisa Blaydes, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Emanuela Buscemi is a sociologist and International Relations specialist whose areas of research include women and gender narratives, social (non)movements, agency and activism in the Arabian Gulf and Latin America.
Shahd Alshammari teaches literature and is the author of Head Above Water (Neem tree Press, Feminist Press, 2022). Her research interests include Disability Studies, autoethnography, and women’s illness narratives.
Ildiko Kaposi is a social scientist whose work focuses on issues of democracy from the perspective of media and communication.
PUBLICATION DATE 11 June 2024
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The Dhofar War
British Covert Campaigning in Arabia 1965-1975
STEPHEN QUICK
Shows how Britain was the key element in securing a rare and historic Cold War counterinsurgency win.
Distils the largely covert recipe for British counterinsurgency success in the Dhofar War.
Provides key lessons for future counterinsurgency campaign planning and execution when supporting an ally or partner.
Between 1965 and 1975, Britain discreetly supported the Sultanate of Oman in achieving a historic Cold War-era counterinsurgency win in its remote Dhofar Province. This book posits that UK military and non-martial assistance to Oman was the primary war-winning factor.
PRAISE FOR THE DHOFAR WAR
Fought largely out of the public eye, the Dhofar War was one of the most successful western-led counterinsurgency campaigns of the Cold War.
Drawing on recent scholarship, memoirs and material from multiple archives, Stephen Quick’s study demonstrates clearly the importance of Britain’s contribution to this victory. Just as significantly, it shows how Britain’s role evolved over the course of the conflict.
Dr. Nikolas Gardner, Professor of Strategy, UAE National Defence College
A highly successful counter-insurgency campaign, the secret war in Dhofar remains virtually unknown. Rigorously contesting existing analyses, Stephen Quick’s important new study expertly demonstrates the changing British role in facilitating a rare victory for the West in the Cold War era.
Professor Ian F W Beckett, University of Kent
This highly readable book provides a fresh treatment of this little-known, yet significant, hot war of the Cold War. Moving deftly between the high politics of diplomacy and strategy to deadly tactical engagements between rebels and British and Omani forces, The Dhofar War captures the complexities and nuance of a declining imperial power, Britain, orchestrating a counterinsurgency campaign on the cheap.
Ash Rossiter, Associate Professor of International Security, Khalifa University
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Stephen Quick is a staff member at the UAE National Defence College, and holds a PhD from King’s College London. Living in the Middle East for over a decade, his research interests include Britain’s post-World War Two counterinsurgency campaigns and Arabian Peninsula history.
PUBLICATION DATE
28 May 2024
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Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health, and Language
Effects of Trauma and Foreign Language Immersions
FERNANDA CARRA-SALSBERG
A novel approach to the study of child and adolescent migrations and their relation to cumulative traumas. Comprehensive examination of the short and long-term factors affecting young migrants.
A detailed understanding of what it means to experience migrancy and to live between languages from a young age.
This timely book focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences children’s and adolescents’ development, subjectivity, identifications, and identity formations.
PRAISE FOR CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MIGRATION, MENTAL HEALTH, AND LANGUAGE
This book is a very valuable addition to the sociological/mental health field. The book is well written, clear and well formatted, using multiple sources as references. I would say that it's a must read for anyone working in this field.
Dr. Kaspars Tuters, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
In this excellent, wide ranging book, Fernanda Carra-Salsberg addresses the very timely reality of child and adolescent migration and its relation to trauma, development, language, and mental health.
Dr. Joseph Fernando, Director, Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis
Fernanda Carra-Salsburg’s compelling study calls for new thinking within the emotional situations of migration through focus on what adolescents and children carry and create from memories of displacement. With grace and attention to philosophies of language and theories of development, CarraSalsburg provides literary approaches to mental health that both enliven theories of translation and invite practitioners to get to know the rough edges of experience with the tenders of humanity needed for care, growth, and the promise of learning.
Deborah P. Britzman, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, and author of When History Returns
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Fernanda Carra-Salsberg has been a postsecondary foreign language educator since 2001. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, her interest in language, culture, migration, trauma, and identity formations stems from her repeated relocations as a child and adolescent migrant, and from experiences as a foreign-language pedagogue. Widely published, Carra-Salsberg completed an interdisciplinary doctoral degree at the Faculty of Education, York University.
PUBLICATION DATE 15 May 2024
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Caesarism in the 21st Century
Crisis and Interregnum in World Order
ERIC FATTOR
This bookʼs gives a historical view of the current era of disarray and demagoguery, revealing how it is not unprecedented. Makes a connection between the controversies and crises surrounding the proliferation of Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies and the disarray in world order.
Offers some possible future scenarios of world order once the current period of Caesarist transition ends.
The profound turbulence in global politics is the result of digital information technologies changing the structure and makeup of world order. As these changes unfold, authoritarian leaders have taken advantage of the lack of legitimacy in global governance and exploited electronic media capabilities to become digital Caesars.
PRAISE FOR CAESARISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Caesarism in the 21st Century offers a rigorous and compelling appraisal of the origins and implications of today’s increasingly precarious world order. Fattor not only carefully applies Gramsci’s theories about power, order, and change to explicate the emergence of a starkly unequal and tumultuous global system governed by assemblages of state and corporate elites amid a digitized societal landscape, but importantly, gives us the tools for thinking through and beyond this crisis.
Julianne Liebenguth, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies, Elon University
In the growing body of work that explores the cracks and fissures of the liberal international order – the global rise of the far-Right, explosions of organized violence, and a climate hurtling towards catastrophe – the role of recent transformations in digital technology remain strangely under-explored. Caesarism in the 21st Century steps into this aporia, offering a Gramscian account of the present that explains why the social forces struggling for a more progressive vision of the the future have been stymied by emergent trends in information technology, while the caesars of the world have been empowered. Theoretically astute, historically-grounded, and eloquently written, Fattor’s analysis offers insight for so many of us struggling to understand ‘why the old world is dying, [but] the new world struggles to be born.’
John Hultgren, Professor of Environmental Politics, Bennington College
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Eric Fattor is a member of the faculty at Colorado State University, teaching courses in international politics, security studies and political theory. His research and publications examine how media and information platforms constitute forms of power in global politics and play a key part in various forms of international conflict.
PUBLICATION DATE
19 March 2024
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D.H. Lawrence and Cornwall
In Search of Utopia
PHILIP PAYTON
Reveals the fascinating story of D.H. Lawrenceʼs attempt to start a utopian community.
Rare new perspectives on Lawrenceʼs life and work. Reflects on Cornish identity and the place of Cornwall in the English imagination.
This book examines D.H. Lawrence’s attempts to establish a utopian community in Cornwall during WWI. Lawrence was drawn to the idea of a ‘Celtic Cornwall’ beyond England’s reach and thus remote from the war. But it caught up with Cornwall and Lawrence, resulting in disillusion and eventual expulsion. He described his Cornish sojourn in Kangaroo.
PRAISE FOR D.H. LAWRENCE AND CORNWALL
This is as much a book about Cornwall during the First World War as it is one about Lawrence, and in Payton’s skilful hands our knowledge and understanding of both are considerably enhanced.
Gerri Kimber, Times Literary Supplement
Payton’s interesting, provocative, and thoughtful exploration of Cornwall as a place and Lawrence as one of many thinkers drawn to its coast to escape modernity and war is well worth a read.
The Digital Pilgrimage
Payton gives us the essential treatment of D.H. Lawrence’s pivotal Cornish sojourn. With a lifetime of considering that land’s unique character, Payton wields unmatched authority as he gracefully embraces Lawrence and Cornwall. This enchanting view of a place and an author is a ‘must have’ for Lawrence enthusiasts.
Ronald M. James, historian and author of The Folklore of Cornwall
An absorbing exploration of the intertwined histories of a mercurial writer and an extraordinary community in an extraordinary time. Payton’s profound knowledge of the history and folklore of Cornwall is evident as he delves into every aspect of the subject - Lawrence's own accounts and those of his associates, local histories, and, significantly, his fiction.
Dr Gillian Dooley, Honorary Associate Professor in English Literature, Flinders University
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, as well as Honorary Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra. He is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993 to 2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.
PUBLICATION DATE
27 February 2024
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Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe
Silence and Protest
ANNE ETIENNE, CHRIS MEGSON
The book discusses censorship through the work of key European playwrights, directors, and theatre makers, as well as significant theatre (and opera) productions. It engages with urgent and topical debates on freedom of expression, multiculturalism, religious co-existence, cancel culture, populism, nationalism, and globalisation in contemporary Europe.
The contributors are specialist experts from across Europe and include both leading academics and emerging scholars.
With contributions from an international range of scholars, this groundbreaking study explores the forms, contexts, and impacts of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe.
PRAISE FOR THEATRE CENSORSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
Both timely and urgent. Bringing together diverse and strong voices from various European contexts, this excellent collection examines the location of theatre censorship after institutional state control has been officially scrapped across Europe. This book offers fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on the ever-pertinent discourses and experiences of censorship as it investigates a range of its manifestations.
Silvija Jestrovic, Professor of Theatre and Performance, University of Warwick
This collection offers an urgently needed update on the censorship of theatre and performance across Europe. It provides original and compelling insights into the impact of the latest political developments and the complexities of ‘cancel culture’, and engages with a wide range of different forms of performance. Essential reading for anyone interested in the pressures which shape European theatre culture today.
Dr Helen Freshwater, author of Theatre Censorship in Britain
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Anne Etienne lectures in Modern and Contemporary Drama in the School of English, University College Cork. Her publications explore theatre censorship, Arnold Wesker and contemporary Irish theatre. She co-edits the series Palgrave Studies in Cultural Censorship.
Chris Megson is Reader in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. His publications focus on post-war and contemporary British playwriting, theatre censorship, and global theatres of the real. He co-edits the series Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations (LUP).
PUBLICATION DATE
23 January 2024
PUBLISHER
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