British Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity

   Edited by Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower, Garry Tregidga

   Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and Celtic...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Club Cultures

   Boundaries, Identities and Otherness

   By Silvia Rief

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices of clubbing help cultivate particular forms of reflexivity and modes of experience, and how these shape new devices for reconfiguring...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
3. Generation X Goes Global

   Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion

   Edited by Christine Henseler

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This edited volume is the first book of its kind to engage critics’ understanding of Generation X as a global phenomenon. Citing case studies from around the world, the research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a worldview. The book traces the global and...

   Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Intelligence and International Security

   New Perspectives and Agendas

   Edited by Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes, Martin Alexander

   The events of 9/11 and subsequent acts of jihadist terrorism, together with the failures of intelligence agencies over Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, have arguably heralded a new age of intelligence. For some this takes the form of a crisis of legitimacy. For others the threat of cataclysmic...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Banking Systems in the Crisis

   The Faces of Liberal Capitalism

   Edited by Suzanne Konzelmann, Marc Fovargue-Davies

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Finance and Stability

   The 2008 financial crisis has severely shaken confidence in liberal economic theory and policy. However, the sharply divergent experiences of the six Anglo-Saxon ‘liberal market economies’ (LMEs) suggest that the reality is not so simple. This book traces the evolution of liberal capitalism, from...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. The New Regulation and Governance of Food

   Beyond the Food Crisis?

   By Terry Marsden, Robert Lee, Andrew Flynn, Samarthia Thankappan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Muslim Women in Britain

   De-Mystifying the Muslimah

   By Sariya Contractor

   Series: Islamic Studies Series

   Perceptions of Muslim women in Western society have been shaped by historical and sociological conditions such as colonialism, patriarchy and Orientalism. In Muslim Women in Britain, Sariya Contractor seeks to reinstate the Muslimah as a storyteller who tells her own story. An exploration of the...

   Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
8. The Official History of Britain and the European Community, Vol. II

   From Rejection to Referendum, 1963-1975

   By Stephen Wall

   Series: Government Official History Series

   This is the second volume in The Official History of Britain and the European Community, and describes the events from 1963 up until the British referendum on the Common Market in 1975. In 1963, General de Gaulle dashed Prime Minister Macmillan’s hopes of taking Britain into the European...

   Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
9. The Official History of Privatisation, Vol. II

   Popular Capitalism, 1987-97

   By David Parker

   Series: Government Official History Series

   This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997. Volume II considers in detail several of the major privatisations, including those of airports, steel...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games

    By Matthew Llewellyn

    Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

    On 6 July 2005, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the city of London, opening a new chapter in Great Britain’s rich Olympic history. Despite the prospect of hosting the summer Games for the third time since Pierre de Coubertin’s 1894 revival of the Olympic...

    Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge