Travel and the British country house

Travel and the British country houseProvides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of goods, people and ideas.

This book introduces the concept of disciplined agency as a valuable explanatory tool vis-a-vis new forms of labour exploitation in service realms of production and the material and moral insecurities of capitalism under neoliberal governance

This book is the first in-depth study of the debates over devolution in the four nations of the UK in the period up to 1945

This book examines how Ireland’s relationship with the EU was affected by a succession of crises

Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period

historians and anthropologists tackle these questions by exploring the transnational circulation of drugs

one-to-one performances in alternative spaces which carry a political or feminist message

and ‘Autumnal Tints’ – each one an explorative reach into the heart of the natural world

Offers a fresh way of thinking about Gothic lineages and histories

the workplace

give some idea of the creative powers of one of the most outstanding women of the Renaissance in Europe

The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England

A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated