Books published by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

A study of the relationship between narrative and history from the late-19th century to the present day. The book reconsiders the terms of modernist narrative and modernist attitudes to history, and offers a theoretical engagement with the problems of the historiography as they affected writers.

In this sympathetic restatement of C B Macpherson's ideas, Townshend provides an overview of Macpherson's theory of possessive individualism and critique of liberal democracy

This is a history of the environment of England, Wales and Scotland, and of the interactions of people, place and nature since the last ice sheet withdrew some ten thousand years ago.

This new Anthology presents a fascinating range of Robert Louis Stevenson's essays on fiction.

This book looks a the role of the slave trade in the economic development of 18th-Century Lancaster.

This book argues that Shelley was both ahead of and in tune with his time and ours.

This book examines life in a set of pilgrim villages in Sudan to show how the concept of pilgrimage is maintained.

This social biography chronicles the life histories of several generations of Kalanga men and women in a single extended family.

Takes an industrial approach to women's documentary practices in Iran since the late 1990s with a patrticular focus on gender politics.

The international authors of this book open a range of windows on our study of the USA.

Flora of Turkey, Volume 3

This book identifies the original impetus and the driving force behind Deleuze's philosophy as a whole and the many concepts it creates.

This is a timely philosophical treatment of the current wave of international terrorism and armed conflicts around the world and the dangers they represent.

This is a concise but comprehensive introduction to modern American social and political thought. The author demonstrates the rich intellectual tradition of the United States and facilitates a better understanding of American society and politics through exploration of key social and political theories and theorists.

This volume offers a new interpretation of Hegel's thought, challenging traditional readings and reconsidering Hegel in terms of his understanding of his own philosophy.

This book offers an integrated overview of the themes and discourses of feminism and multiculturalism which inform the 'politics of difference'; an area of burgeoning interest in contemporary political theory.

A study of the Scottish female writer and dramatist Liz Lochhead.

This book explains the persistence of friendship today in the light of the history of philosophical approaches to the subject.

A study of the last 20 years of Scottish cultural expression in the fields of the novel, cinema and television drama.

This book tells the story of a generation of writers who were passionately engaged with politics and with cinema, exploring the rise and fall of a distinct tradition of cinematic literature.

This book is the first full study of the last national famine to occur in Scotland.

An insightful reading of Deleuze, from the point of view of a student, a reader and a fellow philosopher with whom Deleuze himself corresponded about his work

This book describes and analyses life in 'St Antony's', a Zambian Catholic boys' mission boarding school in the 1990s, using the context-sensitive methods of social anthropology.

In this book Timothy C. Baker situates George Mackay Brown's work within a broad literary and philosophical context to articulate how his novels engage with the question of community.

An examination of the relationship between romanticism, theory and gender.

A major reconsideration of our understanding of the development of Scottish culture from the Enlightenment to the present day.

This book explores the rise of Barack Obama and his vision of One America in the context of profound social and political changes in the US, and the potential transformation of American foreign policy in the post-Bush era.

The first in-depth study of the link between Scottish identity and Scottish language.

An in-depth look at Iona's economic and social history during the 18th and 19th centuries.