The gentleman's mistress

The gentleman's mistressThis 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.

McKay—who grew up in Jamaica—captures the life of African Americans from a realist’s point of view

this rich archive of representations includes South Asian

the attempts to implement this vision

Including contributions from key early modern historians

performance art

when nerves are jangled and feelings stretched

Drawing on recent archaeological fieldwork

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the lively historical controversies surrounding the political careers of Gladstone and Disraeli

Spaces in European cinema is the product of the Research Centre of European Cinema at Middlesex University

This preference helped Burmese ethnonationalists to seize power in the post-colony

Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty brings together articles from the first volume of this cutting-edge journal – which is also the first of its kind in the field

and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail