Prisoners of Britain

Prisoners of BritainDuring WWI hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, and covers 3 different types of internees in Britain: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants.

An exceptional book covering 500 years of the history of the Cossacks - the recklessly brave

Fred Wilson

not just their condition when new

This book offers a broad sweep of 500 years of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers

Drawing on cultural studies

the contributors focus on specific periods and trace the evolutions of individual genres and directors

Portugal and Spain

It explores the ways the women subverted traditional mythologies about gender and imagined new cultural possibilities

Méliès was also the first cinematic auteur

An original study seeking to challenge the negativity associated with council estates

little-known or forgotten writings

In this pioneering study