The many lives of corruption

The many lives of corruptionThis edited collection provides a uniquely expansive history of how corruption has undermined and exercised public life in modern Britain, from the mid eighteenth century to the mid twentieth. It provides the first account that pays equal attention to the successes and limitations of anticorruption reforms, and shifting meanings of corruption.

Performing Exile presents an inclusive mix of voices from varied cultural and geographic affiliations

a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary movement

It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-colour film stills

cultural and communications studies

which also includes two essays on aspects of intertextuality in Gulf literature

The editors open up the field of urban analysis and thought to the perspectives of creative professionals from non-urban disciplines

fans have stood vigil over a seventy year mythos

This book charts emergent geographical imaginaries of the Arctic in twenty-first century cultural production – from literature and cinema to comics

Hélène Cixous

It argues that reading is central to human culture and that this will continue to be the case even if digital cultures change the ways in which we interact with written language

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

Based on extensive research and a careful examination of existing interpretations