Featuring excerpts of 70 of the world's greatest speeches in history and drama, this fascinating book breaks down the key elements of classical and modern oratory to reveal the rhetorical techniques that make them so memorable.

An overview of Kipling's work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism.

This ambitious study offers a comprehensive analysis of the visual in authors from the Anglophone Caribbean. Mary Lou Emery analyses works by George Lamming, C. L. R. James, Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, Jamaica Kincaid and David Dabydeen.

This book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the conventions and the history of the mock-heroic genre.

Twelve in-depth country studies explore how the concepts of interests, identities and institutions shape the politics of nations and regions.

A pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present.

This book charts the relationship between literary texts and their historical context from 1640-1660.

This book is a comprehensive study of political thought at the court of King Alfred the Great (871–99).

Parry offers an analysis of the ideas that influenced the Liberal political coalition between the 1830s and 1880s.

A collection of authoritative and up-to-date scholarship on one of the twentieth century's most important and enigmatic composers.