History matters

History mattersWritten for everyone interested in womens and gender history, History matters reaffirms the importance of viewing history from a distance and with feminist intent. Judith Bennett argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on rich, plausible, and well informed history that is alert to the workings of patriarchal power.

then coastal Scotland

This book is an ethnographic study of the internal dynamics of a subcultural squatting community that defines itself as a social movement

local and global

John Sundholm and Lars Gustaf Andersson consider the creativity that lies in the state of exile

A critical reflection on the role of terrorism in major armed conflicts occurring during the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty first century

Benjamin’s Arcades is composed of 16 entries and a specially designed 'convoluted' index

oral histories and a striking range of films

asking to what extent our modern image of Egypt as a land of gold

most decisively

empire and race exerted much greater influence upon Labour politics in both countries than suggested by ‘traditionalists’ and ‘revisionists’ alike

increasing inequality and poverty

media representations and political philosophy