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View book details for The Mexican Transition
Politics, Culture and Democracy in the Twenty-first Century
This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures. They were written at different points in time and even …
View book details for Transforming Childcare and Listening to Families
Policy in Wales and Beyond
This book draws on original research to consider the connections between childcare, family lives and social policy. The research, located in Wales in the period following devolution, concerns the capacity of policy to enhance family well-being. In interviews with mothers …
View book details for International Human Rights in Post-Colonial Africa
Universality in Perspective
This study advances three interrelated claims for international human rights standards (IHRS). First, that post-colonial African societies are bureaucratic modern states and capitalist societies to which IHRS are suitable for application, pursuant to the Modified Modernisation Theory. The sweeping vicissitudes …
View book details for Masks in Horror Cinema
Eyes Without Faces
Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. …
This book discusses Griffith Joness High Church ministry and theology, which developed into mass evangelism in Wales. It considers Joness background, his life as a parson, preaching in Welsh and educational interests, as well as his determination to remain within …
View book details for Secret Sins
Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of …
View book details for The Art of the Text
Visuality in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literary and Other Media
The Art of the Text contributes to the fast-developing dialogue between textual studies and visual culture studies. It focuses on the processes through which writers think and readers respond visually and, in essays by researchers in literature, screen and visual …
View book details for Living Off-Grid in Wales
Eco-Villages in Policy and Practice
Living Off-Grid in Wales addresses broad debates about the possibility of planning for a sustainable future, by an examination of rural development off the grid. Contrasting Waless policy on One Planet Development a planning policy that encourages living off-grid with …
View book details for Women and the City in French Literature and Culture
Reconfiguring the Feminine in the Urban Environment
The city has traditionally been configured as a fundamentally masculine space. This collection of essays seeks to question many of the idees recues surrounding womens ongoing association with the private, the domestic and the rural. Covering a selection of films, …
View book details for Watchdogs or Visionaries?
Perspectives on the History of the Education Inspectorate in Wales
This is a ground-breaking history of school and college inspection in Wales. With contributions from two former chief inspectors, two former HMI and leading historians, it offers an authoritative account of how the inspectorate has changed over time. Since their …
This book pays overdue attention to the British writer Ramsey Campbell, a key figure in the post-1970s boom in Anglo-American horror fiction. Despite a huge output and receiving every accolade within his field over a long career, Campbell has not …
View book details for Celtic Myth in the 21st Century
The Gods and their Stories in a Global Perspective
This wide-ranging book contains twelve chapters by scholars who explore aspects of the fascinating field of Celtic mythology from myth and the medieval to comparative mythology, and the new cosmological approach. Examples of the innovative research represented here lead the …
This is a new edition of David Painting's biography of Amy Dillwyn, first published in 1987. This is a very accessible biography of a remarkable woman, Amy Dillwyn (1845 - 1935); who was born into one of Swansea's most distinguished …
View book details for Stolen Limelight
Gender, Display and Displacement In Modern Fiction in French
Who has not, in a favored moment, stolen the limelight, whether inadvertently or by design? The implications of such an act of display its illicitness, its verve, its vertiginous reversal of power, its subversiveness are explored in this book. Narrative …
View book details for Why Wales Never Was
The Failure of Welsh Nationalism
Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the progressive …
View book details for Seals and Society
Medieval Wales, the Welsh Marches and their English Border Region
Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context of one part of medieval Western European …
View book details for Women in Mexican Folk Art
Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters and Celebrities
The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the …
Yn oes Fictoria, ystyriwyd menywod yn anaddas ac anabl ar gyfer pob arweinyddiaeth gyhoeddus a deallusol. Ond llwyddodd Cranogwen, sef Sarah Jane Rees (18391916) o Langrannog, i ennill parch ac enwogrwydd fel bardd, darlithydd, golygydd, pregethwraig, dirwestwraig ac ysbrydolwraig to …
View book details for Environmental Law and Policy in Wales
Responding to Local and Global Challenges
This book examines Welsh perspectives on the search for sustainable law and policy solutions to modern environmental threats.
View book details for Count Us In
How to Make Maths Real for All of Us
Mathematics, like language, is a universal experience. Every society counts and is empowered by its ability to count and to measure. The mathematical processes developed within various cultures differ widely, and Count us in explores these cultural links, drawing examples …
View book details for Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain
The Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen
This is the first monograph on the performance and reception of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century national drama in contemporary Spain, which attempts to remedy the traditional absence of performance-based approaches in Golden Age studies. The book contextualises the socio-historical background …
View book details for Masks in Horror Cinema
Eyes Without Faces
Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. …
View book details for Discovering Dylan Thomas
A Companion to the Collected Poems and Notebook Poems
Discovering Dylan Thomas is a companion to Dylan Thomass published and notebook poems. It includes hitherto-unseen material contained in the recently-discovered fifth notebook, alongside poems, drafts and critical material including summaries of the critical reception of individual poems. The introductory …
The later Middle Ages in Europe c.1150c.1500 can be viewed as an extensive scientific laboratory, with scholars and other writers producing texts that sought to define and redefine the human body in relation to its daily work and environment, and …
View book details for Thomas Matthews' Welsh Records in Paris
A Study in Selected Welsh Medieval Records
This book comprises of a re-publication of Thomas Matthew's 1910 edition of Welsh documents held in the Archives Nationale of France, together with new introductions to the original work and to its editor. The aim is to make the documents, …
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