Civilising rural Ireland HISTORY / Oceania

Civilising rural Ireland HISTORY / OceaniaCivilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the nation state through the lens of political conflict and violence. Instead the book takes as its focus the numerous leaders, organisers, and members of the Irish co operative movement.

Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield are among the women writers whose works account for half the volume

Drawing on research and models from anthropology

It investigates the methods employed to mobilise and resist the pressure for constitutional change

This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror

Set in Ancient Rome

who visited post-Napoleonic England

are here introduced in a new light

which has previously gone underappreciated

This play depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge

The theme of vitality and repression that runs as a leitmotif through his writings takes on a clearer social dimension in the 'drama de mujeres en los pueblos de España'

The notion of landscape is a complex one

This is the first detailed academic cultural study of the rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain