NACBS 2024 Reading List

Posted by zoeturner - Wednesday, 13 Nov 2024

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To mark this year’s North American Conference on British Studies, taking place in Denver from the 15-17th November, we’ve put together a reading list of essential titles on British Studies from MUP.

If you’re attending NACBS 2024, our Senior Commissioning Editor in History, Meredith Carroll, will be there to talk you through our titles, series, and how you might publish with us.

Don’t worry if you can’t make it, you can get 30% off any of the titles on our reading list below using our exclusive conference discount code online – use EVENT30 at checkout on Manchester University Press.

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Queer beyond London

Queer beyond London

Looking beyond the London-centric narratives of British LGBTQ life, this exciting book explores the queer dimensions of four English cities - Manchester, Leeds, Plymouth and Brighton.

Plagues of the heart

Plagues of the heart

Using a micro-historical approach, this book explores how the 'culture of covenanting' shaped lived experiences and communities in seventeenth-century Scotland and offers a more complete understanding of protestant identity in the early modern Atlantic world.

Settlers at the end of empire

Settlers at the end of empire

Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study highlighting the connections between the racial politics of migration in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Rhodesia in the second half of the twentieth century.

The business of birth control

The business of birth control

This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill.

Covert colonialism

Covert colonialism

This book is the first comprehensive archive-based study to explore governance, surveillance, political culture and public policymaking in colonial Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997, using newly released archival documents in London and Hong Kong. Using historical discipline, it provides a thorough understanding of state-society relations in Hong Kong.

Ireland and the Renaissance court

Ireland and the Renaissance court

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the court culture of Ireland and the Irish from the late-medieval period through to the revolutionary upheavals of the 1640s. By drawing on English, Irish and Latin sources, it paints a vivid and detailed picture of Irish politics and society in the European age of Renaissance.

As Good as a Marriage

As Good as a Marriage

The authoritative sequel to Female Fortune, continuing the diaries of Anne Lister up to 1838, when she was at her most powerful.

Sexual politics in revolutionary England

Sexual politics in revolutionary England

This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English Revolution (1640-60) and argues for the long-term significance of that development for the political culture of late Stuart England and beyond.

At home with the poor

At home with the poor

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always mean living in squalor.

Out of his mind

Out of his mind

In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anxieties about health, gender, and modern life.

Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession

Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession

This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession of nursing.

The history of emotions

The history of emotions

Fully revised and updated, The history of emotions is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the theories, methods and problems in this field of historical inquiry and its intersections with other disciplines. It emphasises the importance of this kind of historical work for general understandings of the meaning of human experience.

Men and masculinities in modern Britain

Men and masculinities in modern Britain

Men and masculinities provides a critical overview of ongoing debates in the history of masculinities and the making of men's lives and ideas of masculinity in Britain between the 1890s and present day.It proposes a new agenda, urging histories to reflect on the enduring influence of patriarchy in contemporary Britain.

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.

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