Engine of modernity

Engine of modernityEngine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth century Paris through a focus on the omnibus a horse drawn urban conveyance. The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary modernity in France.

the documents and the fictions of 1851

Through the Roof

One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics

This book takes its cue from the annus miabilis for French culture to outline French modernism and to situate it on the map of global modernism

Rosel experienced Kristallnacht in Frankfurt

NanoCulture breaks new ground in showing the importance of the new technoscience to contemporary culture and of culture to the development

economic and political theory and evidence to show how rivalries within an elite always eclipse (and co-opt) popular or class-based rebellions in driving social change

Available in paperback for the first time

conveying their flavour with contemporary quotations

In asserting the importance of the musical film and its relationship with a vibrant British popular music culture

explores the enormous impact that gay politics had on the landscape of post-war Britain

It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them