Publications
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Moralities of Drone Violence
(2023)
Moral uncertainty surrounding the use of armed drones has been a persistent problem for more than two decades. In response, Moralities of Drone Violence aims to provide greater clarity by exploring and ordering a variety ...
Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy
(2017-01-31)
This book looks at how modern philosophers pass on myths about prehistory.
Why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, and the ...
Scottish Education and Society since 1945
(2023)
Scotland developed a series of educational surveys between the late-1940s and the early-21st century that allow the country’s experience of education to be studied in systematic detail. No other country has an archive of ...
Chapter 3 Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future
(2016)
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking ...
Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire
(2005-01-01)
Did you know that many of the greatest and most colourful Ottoman statesmen and literary figures from the 15th to the early 20th century considered plague as a grave threat to their empire? And did you know that many ...
Transgender and The Literary Imagination
(2018)
Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing ...
Conquered Populations in Early Islam
(2020)
This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but ...
The Twilight of the British Empire
(2017)
This book reveals, for the first time, a hitherto unexplored dimension of Britain’s engagement with the post-war Middle East: the counter-subversive policies and measures conducted by the British Intelligence and Security ...
The Religion of White Rage
(2020)
This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress.
Coal and Energy in South Africa
(2021)
Coal and Energy in South Africa: Considering a Just Transition investigates the consequences of shifting social responsibilities, new inequalities and the sustainability concerns created by the likely energy transition in ...