E. P. Thompson and English radicalism

E. P. Thompson and English radicalismE. P. Thompson and English radicalism celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of The Making of the English Working Class, one of the most influential history books of the last fifty years, and demonstrates the present day relevance of Thomnpsons historical, political and polemical writing and peace campaigning.

The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening – the Lumière Brothers’ showing of their Cinématographe show at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 – through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema

examining the historical circulation of banned films

and the faltering

<i>Pictures of the Floating World</i> finds inspiration from both Japanese and Chinese poetry

This book explores the international dimensions of the peace settlement of the Eastern Mediterranean

Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976

It places both violence and its representations in the context of major historical events

and Scotland

Ranging across three hundred years the essays in this volume address key questions in women's theatre history and retrieve a number of hitherto 'hidden' histories of women performers

” to “Coyote Imitates Bear and Kingfisher

providing an entry point for the dense scholarship on the period

gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss