At the end of the line

At the end of the lineColonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britains long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict. The Colonial Police Service was created in 1936 in order to standardise all imperial police forces and mould colonial policing to the British model. From the British Caribbean to the Middle East, the

Aimed at narrowing the cultural gap for cross-cultural research

The first book-length account of the women's liberation movement (WLM) in Scotland

the penny dreadfuls’ consumption patterns and behaviour within the literary marketplace and within society are also marked by their circulation between different historically popular genres: within the network of late-eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth-century literature and culture

as spaces where the sociopolitical identities of communities and individuals are confronted and shaped

Christian missions

and the human cost of its indifference

This timely collection of essays from Peter Nolan offers deep insight into the challenges faced in integrating China with the global political economy

Explores how Livingstone has been represented in diverse ways and put to work in a variety of socio-political contexts

the two world wars and their aftermaths

Focusing on five French painters - Fragonard

discusses the cinematic processes of addressing the viewers

is the first major monograph about the performance work of artist Anne Bean