Search
Search Results
-
Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary History Remembering Past Struggles and Resourcing Protest
Reflecting the growing interest of historians in memory studies, this edited collection examines the relationship between memory and global social...
-
Ronald Reagan’s 1984 Politics, Policy, and Culture
Forty years after Ronald Reagan’s successful re-election campaign, this book explores the significance of the year 1984 in the making of Reagan’s...
-
Street Naming and the Politics of Greek-Cypriot Identity The Case of Nicosia (Lefkosia), 1878–1975
This book is the first to explore street names and street-naming in the formation of a Greek-Cypriot identity in the cityscape of Nicosia between...
-
A Political History of Sport in Sweden
This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people’s changing attitudes...
-
Scandinavia and Bismarck The Zenith of Scandinavianism
This book accounts for Scandinavian unification efforts in a time of great upheaval. The ideological repercussions of the European revolutions of...
-
Scandinavia After Napoleon The Genesis of Scandinavianism
This book explores the intellectual grounds of Scandinavianist ideology and its political development into a national unification movement. Denmark,...
-
Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902 A View from the Stock Exchange
This book provides a unique account of the financial and political history of the South African War by analysing the organisation and operations of...
-
A New Constitution; a New Language? How the New Courts Talked About the Free State Constitution 1922
The enactment of the Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) Act 1922 on 6 December 1922 appeared to involve a radical rupturing of...
-
Sport from Above
In this chapter, we will follow how sport developed in Sweden from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century. We begin here by...
-
Constituting a Polity
The creation of a new state and construction of a new constitution is often a very divisive moment in a state’s history. The creation of the Irish...
-
Opposition to the Constitution of the Irish Free State in 1922
This chapter provides a snapshot of the opposition to the Free State Constitution in the year 1922 before opinions were influenced by the course of...
-
The National Language and Article 4 of the 1922 Constitution
The 1922 Constitution mentions Irish only twice—grou** language and flag together in Article 4 and Article 42 elevating the language to a first and...
-
The Golden Age of the Swedish Sport Model
After the war, in all of the Scandinavian countries, it was initially a matter of finding forms for how sport should be financed in the new post-war...
-
The Way Out Is Through: Co-produced Critical Utopia as an Antidote to Anthropocenic Academic Melancholia
The starting point for this chapter is the late Mark Fisher’s work on nascent postcapitalist desire, as a curtailed exploration of the anxiety and...
-
Challenging Dystopia with Laughter: Yan Lianke’s Inversion of Political Slogans in Serve the People!
While dystopian literature tends to be dark and ominous, Yan Lianke’s (b.1958) numerous satires of revolutionary politics and corruption in the...
-
From Modern Feminist Utopias to Feminist Post-utopia: Biopolitics and Women’s Emancipation
The fundamental principle of modernity on which the utopian stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are based, biopolitics as an...
-
From Medieval Utopia to Modern Dystopia
The rich vocabulary of medieval Islamic apocalyptic and eschatological compilations is familiar to modern Arab writers, yet influenced by modern...
-
War and Welfare: Separation Allowances in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States
This chapter will explore the multifaceted ways the Great War transformed social welfare policies in Europe and the United States. Traditional...
-
Sumak Kawsay as Decolonial Post-utopia
The search for alternatives to development and beyond has become increasingly more frequent, especially in the face of the avalanche of evidence that...
-
Post-apocalyptic Critical Dystopias: Killing the Minotaur in the Labyrinth
Contemporary series of books and movies for teenagers and young adults, such as The Giver by Lois Lowry, The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, The...